Nancy Weir

Nancy Weir

Nancy Chamberlin Weir was born on February 18th, 1934 in Lincoln, Nebraska to William and Madeleine Chamberlin. Nancy spent all the years of her youth growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska. She had wonderful friends in Lincoln growing up, and has kept in touch with those friends all these years.

She met her future husband, Bill, when she was growing up in Lincoln. Bill fell in love with her at age 12, and chased her for years before she finally gave in and married him after she graduated from college. Nancy attended the University of Nebraska – Lincoln where she was an Alpha Phi and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Home Economics in 1955. She married William Bishop Weir at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska on September 3rd, 1955. Bill and Nancy spent one year in Lincoln, before moving to Imperial, Nebraska when they bought an insurance agency. Nancy and Bill made Imperial their home for the rest of their lives. Nancy worked as a secretary for the Imperial school system before taking a job as a dietician at the Chase County Hospital in Imperial. She eventually became a full time homemaker, raising four children; Joe Bishop born in 1958, Michael Tad in 1960, Catherine Rae in 1961 and Julie Nan in 1969. Nancy’s pride and joy was her children and grandchildren; Sam and Ellen Renk, and Kale, Lauren, and Brit Gockley. She was an avid reader, and loved to play mahjong, skipbo and bridge with family and friends.

She was on the Library Board for many years. She especially loved the annual Weir family reunion in Encampment, Wyoming where she would fish with the kids and spend time with family. In her later years she started an antique business with her dear friend Dee Yaw. Together they traveled far and wide searching for “treasures” to sell in their shop in Ogallala. Nancy was a co-founder of the local Chase County Freedom’s Foundation Valley Forge Chapter. Her sister Margaret had started a FFVF chapter in California. Nancy’s son Joe, and Owen Swanson went on the FFVF trip with the group from California in 1973 and came back raving about the trip. It was all the motivation she needed to get a chapter started in Imperial. Over the next 41 years, 362 students and 79 sponsors have gone on the Freedoms Foundation trip. Many of these students were so influenced by the trip that they pursued careers in politics, history, education, and more. Nancy changed the lives of all those around her.

She will be missed by so many, but she lives on in everyone whom was lucky enough to know her. Nancy passed away on December 13th, 2015 in Imperial.

She was preceded in death by her parents William and Madeleine Chamberlin, two sisters; Margaret Sands and Ann Pringle, and her husband Bill.

She is survived by her four children; Joe Weir and wife, Trudy of Topeka, Kansas, Tad Weir and wife, Rose of Imperial, Cathy (Weir) Renk and husband, Jim of Peru, Illinois, and Julie (Weir) Gockley and husband Joel of Imperial; five grandchildren; Sam and Ellen Renk, Kale, Lauren, and Brit Gockley, and countless other family and friends who were lucky enough to know and love her.

Memorial services will be 11:30 A.M. (Mountain Time), Friday morning, December 18th, 2015 at the First United Methodist Church of Imperial with Pastor Dirk Weiss officiating. A private family inurnment will take place at a later date.

No visitation; cremation was chosen.

In lieu of flowers, we ask that memorials be directed to the family to be given in her memory to our local Chase County FFVF chapter, and to the Imperial Community Foundation.

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