Nancy Stelzig

Nancy Stelzig passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family on April 19, 2023.  Nancy was born on October 22, 1943, in Rochester, PA to Anna Elizabth Coulter and Leo John Bullian. She spent most of her youth growing up in Beaver Falls and Sewickley where she graduated from Quaker Valley High School in 1961. She attended the Duffs – Iron City Business Institute in Pittsburgh in 1962 and worked as a secretary. She met the love of her life Max Stelzig at a dance at the American Legion in Sewickley in 1963. They were married on April 4, 1964.  Together they had two children Joni Elizibeth and Michael Paul. During the 1970s she and Max raised the kids, moving several times from Sewickley to Masontown, Carmichaels and then Indiana, PA before returning to settle in Sewickley.  In 1984 she returned to work at Yankello’s TV and Radio shop where she became a fixture in the Sewickley community for the next 30 years. She loved working there because she was able to meet so many fascinating people from the local area.  Upon retirement she spent her time doting on her extended family of nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. In her spare time, she loved reading romance novels, local history stories and doing puzzles. In the summer she loved “sitting on the porch” and chatting with the neighbors.  She is preceded in death by her parents, her sister Joan Ryan in 1990, and daughter Joni Charlton 2023.  She is survived by her husband of 60 years, two weeks and two days Max Stelzig, brother Leo (Marsha) Bullian, Sister in-law Carol (Bob) Miller, son Michael (Srisuna) Stelzig. Cousins: Susan Loughridge, Karyn (Dale) Petty, John (Graciella) Loughridge, and Greg(Francis) Loughridge; nieces and nephews Dawn (Sandi) Ryan, Amy Scogna, Heather(Chuck) Warren, Daniel (Kim) Miller, Jeff Miller, Ryan (Billie Jo) Miller, Lisa (Ron)Hancock, and Michelle Bullian; grandchildren Sawyer and Maiya Stelzig, grandnieces and nephews Shane (Sarah) Potter and Billy (Haley) Anskate, Carl “CT” (Morgan) Hill, Morgan (Nate) Charlton, Cheyenne Warren, Danny Miller Jr., Austin Miller, Alex Miller, Adam Miller, Chase (Dani) Miller, Skyler Miller, and Jaden Miller; great grand nieces and nephews:  Jayce Henry, Carson Anskate, Lilly Hill, Khloe Potter and Dakota Miller.  Friends will be received on Monday from 2-4 and 6-8 PM in the John Syka Funeral Home, Inc. 833 Kennedy Drive, Ambridge where a funeral service will be held on Tuesday at 11 AM. Private burial will take place in Sylvania Hills Memorial Park.

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