Nancy Jane Whitaker

She was born August 13, 1930, in the Panama Canal Zone to Emerson and Viola Fuller. She married Robert E. Whitaker on June 11, 1950, in Manistee Michigan.

Nancy was a 1948 graduate of Ludington High School and a longtime resident of Whitmore Lake. She retired from GM Hydromatic, in 1998. She also worked at the Sears catalog department, and was a secretary at the U of M Bell Tower.

She was a devoted wife and mother; while helping to build the family home and raising a family. Her hobbies included gardening, needlepoint, boating and sailing, square dancing and traveling. She also enjoyed her many pets throughout the years and had a habit of baking cookies at midnight. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hamburg, a Whitmore Lake Girl Scout Leader, and a member of the Whitmore Lake Promenaders Square Dance Club.

Nancy is preceded in death by her loving husband, Robert; daughter and son-in-law Ivy & Wayne Haddix; grandson Thomas Whitaker, sister Joyan Rehberger, and parents Emerson and Viola Fuller. Survivors include her children, Cindy (Richard) Nolte, Jeffery (Mary) Whitaker and Melinda (Dana) Czapla; eight grandchildren; six great grandchildren; many nieces and nephews.

A memorial celebration will be held Saturday May 4, 2019 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hamburg MI as follows: 10 AM visitation; 11 AM Memorial; 12 PM Luncheon. Robert and Nancy will be Inurned at Washtenong Memorial Park & Mausoleum.

Memorial contributions are suggested to St. Paul Lutheran Church of Hamburg MI, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, or Heartland Hospice of Ann Arbor.