Nancy Louise Weldon

Nancy Louise Appleby was born in Omaha, NE, on December 31, 1933, to Herman & Agnes Appleby of Elk City, NE. She attended country school at Elk City through 8th grade, and high school in Valley, NE, where she met her future husband, Robert Clark Weldon. Nancy graduated from high school as valedictorian in 1951. Nancy (& Clark) attended Doane College in Crete, NE, until their marriage in the summer after their junior year on August 22, 1954, in Valley, NE. After they married, they moved to Omaha where Nancy worked in a physician’s office while Clark attended medical school. Don, Susan, & Joan were born during these years. After Clark graduated from UNMC and completed his internship, he accepted a partnership with Dr. A.H. Bonebrake in Nebraska City, NE, and he and Nancy moved their family there in the late spring of 1960, where Rex was born in 1965. While raising her family, Nancy was an active member of the Otoe County Medical Society Auxiliary, the St. Mary’s Hospital Auxiliary, and PEO Chapter FV for many years. She was also a decades-long volunteer for Meals on Wheels and was an Election Judge for many years. She was a Board Trustee of the Steinhart Foundation from 1994 to 2007 and was the Lay Member of the State Accreditation Committee of the Nebraska State Board of Education for (1) 3-year term ending in 1984. Nancy was an avid bridge player and was a member of several bridge groups in Nebraska City. She enjoyed books, solving crossword & logic puzzles, almost all genres of music, and was a talented pianist. She enjoyed any opportunity to observe celestial events such as meteor showers & comets when they occurred, but it was a family joke that it was usually cloudy when these events happened. She would have thoroughly enjoyed the buildup and publicity surrounding the Eclipse of 2017 and its path of totality through Nebraska. Nancy & Clark enjoyed many evenings out over the years as members of Nebraska City’s Holiday Dance Club. As a member of the Wildwood Weavers, she had her own floor loom and created many beautiful pieces. She enjoyed the many types of birds that frequented the trees around her home (with a soft spot for ducks & owls) and keeping an eye out for wildlife in the woods behind her home and on drives was a favorite pastime. She and Clark raised their kids to be Husker football fans, but she never got “quite” as vociferous as the rest of the family when a bad play or call occurred. Nancy greatly enjoyed the company of many dear friends during the 47 years she lived in Nebraska City. She & Clark enjoyed traveling over the years, Nancy made a solo trip to Cape Kennedy for the Apollo 16 moon launch in 1972 (a time when wives & mothers generally did NOT travel alone), and she & Clark both attended the Skylab launch in 1973. They traveled to San Diego several times so that Clark could play in the Andy Williams Pro-Am Golf Tournament while she enjoyed the activities set up for players’ wives. There were trips to New York City, Washington, DC, Las Vegas, Hawaii (with friends), and to Florida and Texas to visit family during ‘snowbird’ season. Nancy won a trip to Sanibel Island in FL in a contest, and that immediately became a repeat destination. On a trip to Grand Cayman, she enjoyed watching Clark & Don take their love of windsurfing from various local lakes to the ocean. Colorado was a favorite summer destination for family vacations, & they also enjoyed a few family ski trips to CO with their good friends & neighbors Garry & Joan Ailes and their family. They traveled to England & Scotland twice, with the first time extra special due to flying the Concorde from Omaha to London in 1985. Nancy was thrilled to be able to find & meet relatives in Scotland. Mexico, Paris, Italy, & Kenya (where they stood on the equator) were other overseas destinations. And, of course, there were trips to Lincoln for decades to cheer on the Huskers, and they also attended some away games. In the years after Clark’s passing, Nancy traveled again to Hawaii with Susan and Joan in 2000, to the Rose Bowl in 2002 with Don & Diane where the highlight was seeing Drew perform with the UNL Marching Band, and to the beautiful National Parks & Monuments in Utah with Elderhostel. Nancy moved to the Nebraska PEO Home in Beatrice, NE, in November of 2007, and died there on May 10, 2024. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband Clark on June 26, 1998, and by her parents, infant sister Jean, nephew Thomas Appleby, brother & sister-in-law William & Virginia Appleby, sister & brother-in-law Mary & Fred Anderson, sister-in-law Marty Appleby, & brother-in-law Ted Weldon. She is survived by her children Dr. Don (Diane) Weldon of Beatrice, Susan Weldon of Syracuse, Joan Weldon of Lincoln, & Rex (Julie) Weldon of Papillion, grandchildren Adem Weldon of Papillion, Drew Weldon of Seattle, WA, Cody (Kristi) Weldon of Gibbon, NE, and Miranda Weldon of Omaha, and great-grandchildren Reilan of Seattle, WA, and Landi & Bailey of Gibbon. She is also survived by her brother Doug Appleby of Burnsville, MN, sister-in-law Jayne Weldon of Omaha, along with nieces, nephews, and their families.

Nancy Louise Weldon

December 31, 1933 - May 10, 2024