Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing after she disappeared from Arizona, with considerable public interest in her father, Charles Guthrie.
Savannah Guthrie’s father, Charles, died a few years ago of a heart attack. (Reuters)Guthrie’s father tragically died a few years before his mother’s disappearance.
Savannah has two siblings and is the youngest of three children born to Nancy and Charles Guthrie, Page Six reported.
During a news conference, the Pima County Sheriff said that Nancy mysteriously disappeared from her residence after she was last seen by her family on the evening of January 31, and authorities now consider the home a “crime scene.”
Although the sheriff told CBS News that he suspects Nancy was kidnapped, the motive behind such an act is unclear, especially as to why anyone would want to take Savannah’s mother.
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Cause of death of Savannah Guthrie’s fatherNancy Guthrie, 46, experienced the loss of her husband Charles, who died of a heart attack, according to Page Six. Her husband worked as a mining engineer. At the time of her death, Savannah was in her last year of high school.
In a podcast interview with Brooke Shields, Nancy revealed that Charles suffered his first heart attack when Savannah was 13 years old.
She shared with Hoda Kotb on her Making Space podcast that her father had an amazing, magnetic, joyful, charismatic, incredibly loving, warm, kind and tolerant personality.
“There’s like an electricity in the air,” Savannah recalled on the 2024 Making Space podcast. And I can remember my mother coming over to try to hug me and telling me very quickly, ‘Daddy’s dead.’
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Savannah Guthrie named her son after her fatherSavannah and her husband chose to name their son after his father, whose death she described as tragic, saying it tore “the whole world apart”.
Savannah has two children with husband Michael Feldman — daughter Val, 11, and son Charlie, 9.
