Nancy Dee Sarner Kenney's Obituary
Nancy Dee Sarner Kenney, 72, was born in Corning, New York on October 20th, 1947, to Julia Siskin Sarner and Irving”Bob” Sarner. On March 18, 1956, her sister Wendy Sue Sarner Peitzer was born, and Nancy named her sister, after the character in the Peter Pan story. In 1959, when Nancy was 12 years old, she and her then 3 year old sister suffered the loss of their mother, Julia Siskin Sarner to breast cancer. After 4 years, her widowed father, remarried, and Nancy, her sister Wendy, her new mother, Esther Sarner, and her father, Irving Sarner, moved to Syracuse, NY. Nancy graduated from Onondaga Free Academy High School , in Syracuse, New York, and Keene State College, in Keene, New Hampshire. She studied sociology and psychology during college. After graduation, in 1969, Nancy worked as a social worker in child welfare for the state of New Hampshire. She was also married in 1969 to Bruce Kenney, and in 1978 divorced. At the time, she lived in Manchester, New Hampshire. Nancy then continued her career by working as an insurance agent for Amica Mutual Insurance, and then Concord Group Insurance for many years, in Manchester, NH and then in Concord, NH. In the late 1990’s, Nancy pursued her dream of becoming a real estate agent. She sold homes in and around the Concord, NH area, where she had moved to and lived for several years. In 1998, Nancy’s “second” mother passed away in Florida. In 2005, Nancy and her sister Wendy, helped to move their failing elderly father, Bob Sarner to New Hampshire from Florida. Nancy was her father’s caretaker until he passed away in 2007. In 2011, Nancy moved to Fort Lauderdale, FL, where she met several friends, and renewed relationships with her Aunt Phyllis and cousins Laurie and Ted. While living in Florida, Nancy worked as a realtor, in sales, and for the 2020 US Census. Nancy loved to cook, movies, award shows, to knit, and music. She absolutely adored cats, and had many through the years. She had two cats, recently, Gino and Chloe, which were given to a good home. Nancy loved to share old family times, pictures and get togethers with her sister Wendy, and they talked/ texted frequently long distance. Nancy kept in touch with,and got together with her many friends from Florida and from New Hampshire through the years.
Nancy re-joins her mother Julia Siskin Sarner, who died in August 1959, her “second” mother, Esther Taylor Sarner, who died in September 1998, her father, Irving “Bob” Sarner, who died in December 2007, her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
Nancy is survived by her only sibling, Wendy Sue Sarner Peitzer, brother in-law Haywood “Woody” Sterling Peitzer, niece Julia Shannon Peitzer and nephew David Elliott Peitzer, an aunt, several cousins, and dear friends. Nancy’s sister will miss her terribly. Contributions/donations can be made in her name: to Chabad of Plantation, Florida; to an animal rescue for cats; by planting a tree in Israel; Imperial Point Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, or to Trust Bridge Hospice in Fort Lauderdale/ West Palm Beach / Boca Raton.
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