Nancy Salisbury Brown

Nancy Salisbury Brown passed away on October 30, 2020 in Glen Burnie, Maryland from complications related to Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) with her devoted husband Mark Everett Brown (her true love) at her side. She had been suffering with FTD for more than six years. She is at peace now. Nancy was born as Mary Nancy Salisbury, January 1, 1948 to William Duane Salisbury, and Virginia Dare Laubensheimer in Columbus, Ohio. She had lived in Gambrills, Maryland for 16 years. She was the mother of four children: Evelyn Ann Hahn (née Brown), Nicholas Mark Brown, Aaron Bernard Keffler, and John William Keffler. She had 8 grandchildren: Odin William Hahn, Vera Nancy Hahn, Christopher Michael Keffler, Anna Helena Keffler, Nadia Kathryn Keffler, Olive Elena Keffler, Nora Bea Keffler, and Alden John Keffler. Nancy had four half-siblings: Jackie Lee Boughton (née Metzger), Michael Allen Metzger, Glendon Robert Metzger (deceased), and Jeffrey Byron Salisbury; and a stepsister, Margaret Ann Redmond (née Adkins). Her life-long friends were Michael and Linda Bless Shaevitz, Elmer and Julie Greenbank, and Gail and John Yundt. Nancy met her husband on her birthday over 36 years ago on Sunday, January 1, 1984. They have been together ever since. They married on June 14, 1986 in Woodland Hills, California, and honeymooned on Catalina Island. Mark asked Nancy to dance at the Westlake Inn, Westlake Village, California, the night they met with his first words to her “Care to Dance?” Nancy loved to watch football. The next day they spent together watching the College Championship Football Bowl games on Monday, January 2nd, since they didn’t play the Bowl games on January 1st like normal because it was on a Sunday that year. Nancy was working in the Gift’s Department at Pepperdine University when she met Mark. She was doing computer system data entry of donations to the University. She than got her a job as a Librarian at Rocketdyne (where Mark was working). She would pack lunches in an ice chest, and they would eat lunch together every day. She had previously been a Librarian at Akron University and Clemson University. At Clemson, she helped the football players pass their academic classes so they could continue playing football. William Perry known as “The Refrigerator,” who went on to play as a defensive lineman for the Chicago Bears, was one such person. After Evelyn was born, Nancy decided to stay at home to raise her daughter. After Evelyn and Nick were grown, Nancy went back to work as a School Teacher in Special Education. Nancy was an intelligent woman with a strong will, and was very loving, fair, loyal, and hardworking. She inspired her family members (husband and children) to do great things. She loved studying the Bible, daily prayer, and reading books (especially mysteries) and the newspaper. She was a member of a book club and possessed 100s of books in her home library. Nancy had a fiery spirit, was very well informed on current events, was very sensible, and had a great sense of humor. She knew very much about all history; for example, she knew every detail about the sinking of the Titanic. She studied English and Russian History at Ohio State University. When Nancy wasn’t working as a Librarian, and School Teacher of special education, she was raising her children, caring for foster children, or homeschooling her son, Nick. She loved dance and put her daughter, Evelyn, into Ballet class at 3 years old—something that she had always wanted. She loved children and volunteered her time at church caring for children in the nursery. Nancy had a great command of the English language, was very social, and would win most trivia games. She had a very fine vocabulary with a strong skill in communication. She could speak very fast and succinctly. She could type and do shorthand faster than most people error free. Being robbed of her reading and communication abilities by FTD was very difficult for Nancy to accept. She only accepted her FTD condition after she could no longer read her books—the loss of her ability to speak, cry or make a sound came later. During the course of her disease, she moved from one end of the spectrum to the other end in these abilities. It was very striking and hard for her loved ones to watch this happen. Nancy loved to cook—Pumpkin pie, and Christmas cookies were favorites. She loved to decorate during Christmas and Halloween. She loved cats and cultivating roses. She was very happy to receive a bunch of roses from her husband and other loved ones. She loved shoes but was careful to buy them at a bargain. She would often say “Praise the good and ignore the bad.” A memorial service is planned to take place at Faith Community Church, 1306 Riedel Road, Gambrills, Maryland, on Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 3:00 PM. Visitation will begin at 2:30 PM. The family suggests if you wish to make a memorial contribution in Nancy’s name, please do so to The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. Online contributions may be made at the following website. https://www.theaftd.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/ Also, check out the following website for a fully free and open way to be a part of the FTD registry for new information, resources, and research. https://ftdregistry.org Online condolences may be made at the following website. https://www.hardestyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/obituary-listings Zoom information: Topic: Link Nancy Salisbury Brown Memorial Service Time: Nov. 7 2020 2:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://arcadia.zoom.us/j/94026184685 Meeting ID: 940 2618 4685