Nancy Faith Salter, 80, of Jacksonville, passed away on June 2, 2017. Private services will be held graveside at Evergreen Cemetery.
Nancy was born to Carrell E and Lutie Mae Cobb on January 10, 1937. She attended Andrew Jackson High School and graduated in 1955. It was at Andrew Jackson High School where she met and later married the late William F. Voss. In 1997 Nancy married Dr. Lowell M. Salter.
Nancy worked at Springfield Atlantic Bank after high school and later became an insurance agent and worked at the Marsh McLennan Agency on the Southside of Jacksonville. She was a longstanding member of the BYKOTA Sunday school class at St. Paul United Methodist Church with many dear friendships recalled.
Nancy had a profound love of classical music, a heightened enjoyment of travel and a flair for a thorough shopping trip, defined by most as an event. Classical music could be heard in and around her home regularly along with movie scores such as the Sound of Music or Dr. Zhivago. Her sons recalled on many occasions that as she played her grand piano that her father had bought her as a child, they were asked to identify composer, tempo and instruments; she also had the gift of perfect pitch. Nancy’s love of music lead her to be an lifelong patron of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and a volunteer for its outreach program for children, the Instrument Zoo.
She also had a zeal for shopping and did so frequently with anyone brave enough to commit to an entire day or who might be up for a shopping trip to New York and a Broadway play.
Nancy took her grandchildren on several extended trips. She and Dr. Salter traveled extensively for many years and made sure they visited Salzburg, Austria where the Sound of Music was partially filmed, among their many travels around the globe.
Nancy is survived by her husband, Dr. Lowell M. Salter and her brother, the Reverend C. E. (Dorothy) Cobb, Jr. of Bowens Mill, GA, sons William C Voss of St Marys,GA and Frederick C (Anna) Voss, both of St. Marys, Ga, Granddaughters Melissa Kemplin of Jacksonville and Charlene F. Rogers of Kingsland, GA and grandsons William F Voss of Topeka, Kansas and Jacob C Voss, of St. Marys, GA and four greatgrandchildren.
Nancy is preceded in death by her parents.
Arrangements are under the direction of Hardage-Giddens Chapel Hills Funeral Home
Please offer condolences at www.hardage-giddenschapelhills.com
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