Nancy Jane Zartman Struck, 95, who was raised in the coal town of Shamokin and lived in Iraq, Georgia and Florida before returning to Pennsylvania, died in her sleep at Bethany Village in Mechanicsburg Sunday.
She had married her college sweetheart, John W. (Jack) Struck, at the end of World War II and they remained together for 72 years until he died last June. They raised three sons, and had two grandchildren.
Nancy Zartman and her sister Miriam were close confidants and left Shamokin to go to Penn State, where both met their future husbands. Jack Struck, an All-American soccer goalie, joined the Army ROTC at the outbreak of World War II. He and Nancy married in 1944 and they had their first child in Georgia where he was stationed before he deployed to Italy at the end of the war.
When he returned, Jack Struck worked as a shop teacher in central Pennsylvania, until joining a State Department delegation to build vocational schools in Baghdad, Iraq in 1953. They lived in Baghdad, by then with three small children, for nearly two years, and then moved to Tallahassee, Florida. There they lived in a house largely built by Jack, a carpenter, and designed by Nancy, who had studied art and architecture.
The family returned to Pennsylvania in 1962 when Jack Struck became Director of Vocational Education for the state. Nancy Struck worked for the American Red Cross, and helped direct the volunteer effort when Hurricane Agnes caused extensive flooding in 1972.
Nancy also was a talented artist, a seamstress and an avid reader. They lived for 49 years in Pinebrook, Camp Hill, in a house mostly built and designed by them.
She is survived by son Ted and son-in-law Al Whitley in San Diego, son Larry and daughter-in-law Donna Struck in Camp Hill, and son Doug in Boston and his children Jack Henry and Julianna.
There will be no public services. Contributions can be made in her name to the Camp Hill Presbyterian Church, where she worshipped.
Arrangements under the direction of Neill Funeral Home, Camp Hill, PA.
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