South High School. She (Mock) Walter, Nancy Grace Connor

1929 - 2021

Nancy Grace Connor (Mock) Walter, age 92, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on September 5, 2021. Nancy was born

March 6, 1929 at Mt. Carmel

Hospital in Columbus,

Ohio. She was the daughter of the late Laurence Ruel

Connor and Marguerite Riel

Connor. Nancy graduated from Grandview Heights

High School in 1946, and earned her Bachelor of Fine

Arts degree at Ohio State

University in 1950. Nancy was an active member of

Trinity United Methodist

Church since 1938. She taught Sunday School, was a member of the Bell Choir and UM Women’s circles and maintained a bulletin board of members’ news for 20 years. She was a member of Alpha Xi Delta

Sorority and Alumnae,

GHHS Alumni Association,

Grandview Heights Friends of the Library and Grandview

Heights/marble Cliff

Historical Society. Nancy was also a former member of Beaux Arts of Columbus

Museum of Art and

Women’s Art Guild of Central

Ohio. Nancy enjoyed reading, painting and art activities, gardening, traveling widely with husband

George and family parties.

Nancy created and published three books: “Where

We Came From” – family histories of each Nancy and George; “How It Happened”

– their childhoods, courtship and family; and “Painting is my Pleasure” - a collection of 225 of her paintings created over a span of more than 40 years. Much of Nancy’s art is displayed throughout the city of Columbus and beyond. Nancy’s greatest joy was being a wife and mother. She is preceded in death by her parents and husband, 2nd Lieutenant

David H. Mock, killed in

Korean Conflict in 1951.

Nancy is survived by her loving husband, George, of 68 years; daughters,

Rebecca (James) Oberla,

Rachel Kuhar, and Constance

(Frank) Lolli; son,

Christopher (Renna) Walter; grandchildren, Eric Oberla,

Benjamin Kuhar, Evan (Becca) Oberla, Andrea (John)

Capella, Melanie (Adam

Buch) Lolli, David (Sarah)

Kuhar, Abigail Oberla, Diana (Alfred) Yates, Anna Oberla,

Alexander Walter and Emily

Lolli; great grandchildren,

Brayden, Sofia and Asher; brothers, Michael (Marilyn)

Connor, Jon Connor and

Laurence (Clare) Connor; sister, Elizabeth Foster; and many nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 11am-12pm at

TRINITY UNITED METHODIST

CHURCH, 1581

CAMBRIDGE BLVD., where

Funeral Service will begin at 12pm. Burial to follow at St. Joseph Cemetery.

FUNERAL PROCESSION TO

FORM AT THE CHURCH.

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