Lucy Fox, MD

Lucy Fox, a New Mexico resident for several decades and a well-loved nephrologist in Albuquerque, died after a short illness on November 23rd, 2025, in Portugal where she had been living for several years. She was 73.

She leaves her daughter, Justine Fox-Young, Justine's husband, Evan Blackstone and their three children: Cary, Marguerite and Avery; her brother, Jim Fox and his wife, Meg Zivahl-Fox, of southern California; and her husband of 17 years, Martin Haagmans, also a longtime resident of Albuquerque. Lucy was pre-deceased by her first husband, Charles Young, an attorney and lobbyist who died in a bicycle accident in 2004.

Lucy also leaves dozens of friends around the world a testament to her unique ease in making and maintaining friends everywhere. She traveled extensively, often to places far off the beaten path, after her retirement from medicine.

During that time, Lucy became an avid birder, exhibiting the same diligence and intensity she practiced throughout her life, from training for marathons to practicing medicine to pie-making to cycling to her many pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago, and especially to photography. Most recently, Lucy was working to become proficient both in Portuguese and Dutch.

Her photos are remarkable. Her subjects were often birds which required dedication, patience and sometimes serious agility to outwit subjects who were none too cooperative most of the time. But Lucy also had an outstanding feel for color, texture, light and composition that infused her other photos: markets, food, houses, historic structures, nature of all sorts, landscapes, a dog or two and especially the faces of the many people she encountered across every continent. A small sampling may be seen at https://www.instagram.com/lucyabq/

Lucy was a graduate of the University of Michigan where she majored in geography and italian before moving to Vancouver, Canada and then to New Mexico. She discovered medicine as a second career and attended the University of New Mexico Medical School, where she graduated first in her class in 1987 and completed her training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. For decades, she was a well-loved and respected physician who dedicated herself to her patients across the state.

The world will miss Lucy's intelligence, her curiosity, her photographer's eye, her thoughtful consideration, her unmistakable laugh and the fun of never knowing what language she might answer you in.

In keeping with her devotion to her many rescue Labrador retrievers and rescue dogs broadly, donations may be made "in memory of Lucy Fox" to Watermelon Mountain Ranch (https://www.wmranch.org)