Nancy Thoms, eighty three years old, left us on Sunday, October 17, 2021. She was born in February 10, 1938 in Red Bank, New Jersey to the late Harry and Evelyn Burdge. Nancy graduated in 1956 from Middletown Township High School, Leonardo, New Jersey. She passed away peacefully in Mobile, Alabama. Nancy is preceded in death by her parents.Nancy and her husband Herb met in high school and were together from then to the present. She was a homemaker, a sometime office worker, and the wife of a career soldier. Her travels with her husband took her to many posts in the United States and four wonderful years in the Philippines. Her interests included volunteering at the Mobile Infirmary, traveling and camping in her Class B motorhome, participating in Camp Bluebird activities for cancer survivors, attending car shows with her Class B and the Thoms 68 Cougar, singing with the Azalea City Chorus of Sweet Adelines International, and her close and extended families. Nancy is survived by her husband of sixty-three years, Herb Thoms; daughter, Catherine Strickland (Arik); son, Stephen Thoms (Clarisse); grandson, Stephen Thoms and fiancee Christy Lenoir; grandson, Christopher "Chase" Thoms (Courtney); grandson, Trevor Goren and fiancee Allyson Pryor; great-granddaughter, Caitlyn Thoms; and great-grandson, Chase Thoms.
Visitation will be held at Radney Funeral Home-Mobile on Thursday, October 21, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Celebration of Nancy’s life will be held in the funeral home chapel immediately following. The family will receive friends and family for a reception at the funeral home after the Celebration of Life.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests that donations be made to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Condolences may be offered at www.radneyfuneralhome-mobile.com.
