Obituaries 24 October 2023

Anita Mary (Longshore) Nye

Anita Mary (Longshore) Nye, 91, of Nashport, passed away Oct. 23, 2023.

She was born March 22, 1932 in Zanesville to Ernest and Doris (Henke) Longshore.

Her senior year of high school, her family moved to San Benito, Texas, and Anita graduated from San Benito High School in 1949. Soon after moving to San Benito, Anita met her future husband, Charles L. Nye. Anita and Charlie were married April 5, 1953 in Great Falls, Mont., where Charlie was stationed in the U.S. Air Force. Eventually, Anita and Charlie moved back to their roots in Ohio, where they settled and enjoyed raising their family of five children.

When the children were older, Anita enjoyed working in the local fabric shop and Shirley's Pharmacy. After Charlie retired, they both enjoyed spending 13 summers working in beautiful Yellowstone National Park. Anita and Charlie loved traveling every chance they had and saw much of the United States together including an anniversary cruise to Alaska.

Anita had many hobbies. She created beautiful cross-stitch projects, crochet projects and colorful hand-stitched quilts for her family. She loved working with fabric, producing countless garments for her family and decorative items for her home. In recent years, she was often seen methodically working on a jigsaw puzzle or playing dominoes.

Anita loved the Lord and modeled the woman found in Proverbs 31. She loved her husband of 70 years, and she loved each phone call and every moment spent with her family. She leaves her fingerprints all over their hearts.

Anita is survived by her loving husband, Charles Nye; five children, Katrina (Dan) Kirkendall, Steven (Carolyn) Nye, Loa (Brian) Stemm, Koa Nye and Charlie (Patricia) Nye; 14 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Kenneth Longshore; sister-in-law, Viola Longshore; and beloved aunts, Katie Taylor and Rita Brannon.

Funeral services will be held Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 at 1 p.m. at Thompson Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 241 East Main Street, Hillsboro.

To sign the online guest book, visit www.thompsonfuneralhomes.com.

 

Add new comment

This is not for publication.
This is not for publication.
About text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
Article comments are not posted immediately to the Web site. Each submission must be approved by the Web site editor, who may edit content for appropriateness. There may be a delay of 24-48 hours for any submission while the web site editor reviews and approves it. Note: All information on this form is required. Your telephone number and email address is for our use only, and will not be attached to your comment.
CAPTCHA This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.