Nancy Lyn (Lauber) Slepicka

A Memorial Service for Nancy will be held on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Geneva, Nebraska with Pastor Doug Griger presiding. No visitation - cremation. Graveside Services will be held following the Memorial Service in the Geneva Public Cemetery in Geneva, Nebraska. In Lieu of Flowers - Memorial donations may be made to Friends of The Lighthouse, 10 Hudson Street, Annapolis, MD 21401 or Lustgarten Foundation to support Pancreatic Cancer research https://lustgarten.org/?form=give Nancy Lyn (Lauber) Slepicka, 73, passed away July 6, 2023. She lived with her husband Lon in Maryland since 1974 and Annapolis, MD since 1984 raising two daughters there. Nancy graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1979 and went into practice with Fossett and Brugger, P.A., a land use law firm in Greenbelt, Maryland. That firm joined O’Malley, Miles, Nylen & Gilmore, P.A. and Nancy represented clients in Maryland including managing the firm’s office in Charles County. Nancy was a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, and the Attorney Grievance Commission for many years. She was active in the Maryland Women’s Bar Association. Nancy was born in Nebraska and went to high school in Geneva. She excelled in music, traveling in the summer of her junior year with a national touring choir. After graduation in 1967, Nancy attended the University of Nebraska and studied music education, piano, and voice. She was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Lon and Nancy were married in June 1970 and while in school worked nights at the largest American Legion Club in the US, Lincoln, Nebraska where on football Saturdays it was over flowing with fans. In the summer of 1971 they traveled throughout Europe to then return to Nebraska as Nancy began working for Seward County teaching music at five elementary schools. Superintendent for that schools system was Maxine Bornschlegel, a teacher Nancy had in junior high in Geneva. Lon began working for the Seward County Independent weekly newspaper. In the summer of 1974, while traveling and interviewing, Lon joined a newspaper group in Maryland and they moved to the area. Nancy worked for Nebraska third district Congress Woman Virginia Smith and then for Maryland Senator J. Glenn Beall. Nancy then began law school at night. A group of friends on Capitol Hill, after work, drove to Baltimore for a four years of classes. Nancy and Lon joined Calvary United Methodist Church in Annapolis where Nancy sang in the choir, played the organ as needed and accompanied the children’s choir for many years. She served on the Staff Parish Committee and other committees for the church. Nancy was a member of the Board of Directors of the Lighthouse Shelter in Annapolis and a strong promoter of their programs. She was instrumental in expanding the programs offered to homeless families beyond shelter to training and educational opportunities and social support. Nancy was an avid sailor on the Chesapeake Bay and in the Caribbean. On her 70th birthday she and Lon chartered a catamaran for sailing, eating, drinking and swimming on the Bay with family and friends. Lon and Nancy traveled extensively around the world, enjoying many friends and family in other countries. Swimming and yoga were choices of exercise including yoga workshops in Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico. She normally did three days a week lap swimming in the pool in Annapolis. Nancy was proceeded in death by her grandparents Ray and Pearl Ainsworth, Herbert and Vera Lauber, her parents Claiton and Evelyn Lauber. Nancy is survived by her husband Lon, daughters Ashley and husband Chris DiIonno and two grandsons Paul and Luca, Mallory and husband Bill Kovach, sisters Karyn and husband Steve Nicholson, Gina Roter and brother Martin Lauber.

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Nancy Lyn (Lauber) Slepicka

July 26, 1949 - July 6, 2023