Nancy Proctor

Nancy ProctorClemson

Nancy Thompson Proctor passed into the afterlife on Friday, January 15, 2016 at the Skilled Nursing Unit in the Downs Retirement Center in Clemson.

Nancy is survived by her husband, Gilmer Proctor, her brother, Clark Thompson, nieces, Janice Sanders, Debra Camp, Kelly Vallier, Delores Chancellor, Sandra Thompson, and nephews Christopher Brown, Bert Thompson, Jason Thompson and their families.

A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at Clemson First Baptist Church.

The family will receive friends following the service in the narthex of the church.

Mrs. Proctor was born May 30, 1933 in Saluda, NC at the home of her parents, Lillian and Roy Thompson.  Nancy had two sisters, Ruth and Carol and three brothers, Charles, Perry and Clark.

Saluda had two hospitals for babies along with grocery stores, a post office and a drug store, two service stations, assorted gift shops, a small theater and two banks.  Nancy worked in a hospital one summer.  Nancy attended twelve years of school in Saluda and was the Salutatorian of her 1951 class.  She attended Blanton's Business College in Asheville for two years then she was employed at Duke Power in Hendersonville, NC.  Later she worked at the Raleigh Linen Company.

Nancy married Gilmer Proctor of Hendersonville in 1957.  They have lived in Ocean Springs, Mississippi (3 years), Raleigh, NC (4 years),and Clemson SC (50 years) and spent sabbaticals in Providence RI (1 year) and have developed spiritually, especially at the First Baptist Church in Clemson.  They traveled to most parts of this country and Nancy has traveled to southern France and parts of Canada.  She did volunteer work (meals on wheels and as a hospital volunteer in the Clemson area).  She enjoyed reading and loved talking to her friends until lately.  She has been a people person.

Nancy developed illnesses that have gradually grown worse over the past years.  Recently she has been living in a nursing home.  She wished to thank the nursing staff and the many friends who visited her.

Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or in person at Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central, which is assisting the family.