Nancy Lee (Akers) Mullnix, 26 Mar 1941 - 13 Aug 2020

MULLNIX, AKERS, WILDMAN, HUNZINGER, FOX, CHAPMAN

Posted By: Sarah Witte (email)
Date: 8/20/2020 at 13:07:32

Nancy Lee Mullnix, age 79, of Williamsburg, lost her long battle with cancer, on Thursday, August 13, 2020. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, August 18, 2020, at Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo. The family will receive friends from 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, August 8, 2020, until service time. Memorials may be contributed In Nancy's name to Iowa City Hospice 1025 Wasde St., Iowa City, Iowa 52240 or to the family for a tree planting project at her home. Masks and social distancing are required at the services.

Nancy is survived by her mother Vivian Akers, of Iowa City; two sisters, Shelia Chapman, of Hills, and Mary (Dennis) Fox, of Virginia; her children Kenneth (Angie), Michael (Joanne), David, and Katherine Hunzinger, all of Williamsburg; 14 grandchildren; and several great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband Gerald, her father Patrick, a brother Patrick, a nephew Patrick, and a brother-in-law Wayne Chapman.

Nancy was born March 26th, 1941 in Iowa City. She is the daughter of Patrick and Vivian (Wildman) Akers. Nancy graduated from City High School in 1959. On June 10, 1959, she was united in marriage to Gerald Leo Mullnix, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, in rural Williamsburg. To this union, three sons and a daughter was born.

Nancy worked many jobs at restaurants, LL Pelling, and North American Van Lines. Her true love was children. Nancy and Gerald did foster care from 1988 to 2005. The love of children shined through until the end of her life. In her last days, she kept asking to hold her great grandson Sawyer Eugene Edwards. She held him and played with his little toes. It wasn’t just foster children, it was every child that came into her life.

Please remember the hugs and kisses, band aids and cookies. Everyone was welcome to put there feet under her table. Her kind words, “always be humble and kind and this too shall pass”. Nancy would do without so others could have.

The family wishes to extend a special thank you to Mercy Hospital and to the nurses and doctors of hospice whom took such special care of Nancy.

Published in The Hometown Current on August 19, 2020. An abbreviated version published in The Gazette on August 15, 2020