Nancy was a unique individual as everyone who had the good fortune to know her will attest. She was born Nov. 8, 1958 into a humble Irish-American working class family to Robert M and Audrey Wilson and raised in the steel town of Warren, OH. Nancy excelled in academics and was a cheerleader through all her years of high school. She was the second member of her family to attend college, following her beloved older sister Ellen. She graduated from Kent State University with honors and made the Dean’s list without hardly ever having to study. Nancy went on to have a distinguished professional career in computer science, information systems and program management. Her professional credentials included Certification as a Project Management Professional and as a Certified Information Systems Auditor for a number of companies most notably with CitiCorp and CitiCapital where she worked for the last 20-plus years.
Nancy was everything: business professional, wife, mother, homemaker and volunteer. She did it all and was a master of everything she did. A consummate professional her greatest joy and life focus was being a mother to Erin and Connor; and what a mother she was. Simply the best mother ever. Her goodness and grace made for a very happy home.
When not being an information systems professional, wife, homemaker or mother she volunteered her additional time to a variety of charitable organizations including Meals on Wheels and Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Organization International (ACCOI). She served on the board of directors of ACCOI where she traveled the nation extensively attending survivor meetings where she provided information, comfort and hope to others diagnosed as she was with this rare form of cancer. In recognition of her volunteer efforts she was twice awarded The President’s Volunteer Service Award, first by President George W. Bush and later by President Barack Obama.
Our family would like to thank the medical team at UTSW Medical Center for their help and guidance through these years and the hospice team from Three Oaks Hospice.
Nancy is survived by her husband of 35 years, David Kneer; daughter Erin Scarbrough and her husband, Michael, and their daughter Piper; son Connor Kneer, and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
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