Nancy Turner Whiteman passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 5 at age 89 in Margaretville, NY.
Nancy was born April 6, 1932, in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and attended nearby Hastings High School. She later studied art at The Cooper Union, The Museum of Modern Art, and Parsons School of Design, all in New York City. She began her commercial art and design career with McCann-Erickson and Eastman Chemical Products in New York and later worked with Nicholas Arena Associates of Greenwich, Wardell-Burger Design of Elmsford, NY, Reader’s Digest Association in Pleasantville, NY, and as a freelance art director for numerous other clients.
Nancy had a great love of music in all its forms. She played guitar, piano, and sang in choirs (and nearly anywhere else she could). Nancy was also an accomplished painter, an enthusiastic traveler, an avid reader, intrepid cook, eager sailor (as Captain of the “Jellybean”), and so, necessarily, a buoyant swimmer.
She brought to all these things – and to all her relationships – a keen wit, a sense of humor, and her supply of good spirits.
Nancy lived in and around metropolitan New York and southern Connecticut most of her life, including Dobbs Ferry, Blooming Grove, New York City, Hartsdale, Chappaqua, Greenwich, and Port Chester. She spent her last years enjoying new relationships and the exceptional care provided by The Mews of Greenwich, and Mountainside Residential Care Center in Margaretville, NY.
She is survived by brothers Jim and Kibbe Turner, stepsister Jane Carpenter Petruska, and sons David and Andrew from her former marriage to John Whiteman.
A memorial website for Nancy has been set up at weremember.com and can be visited by entering Nancy Turner Whiteman in the search box.
Donations in Nancy’s memory can be made to Riverkeeper, a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection of her beloved Hudson River and its tributaries. Please visit riverkeeper.org/nancy or riverkeeper.org for more information.
