WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts — Nancy Clark was born December 11, 1946 in Akron, Ohio, to Ruth and Gardner Brown.

She showed a real talent for music and played the cello through her college years. She also got hooked on stamp collecting, like her parents.

She married Eugene Zielinski when she graduated from the University of Illinois, and she had two daughters from that marriage, Ruth Karlotte Hansen and Jennifer Webber. Eventually, that marriage ended and then Nancy married Douglas Clark, to whom she’s been married 35 years.

Nancy taught music to many students, working as choral director in several churches as well as teaching in public schools. But her passion was collecting stamps and all things philatelic. Her Maine stampless was an amazing collection. Her book of Interrupted United States Postal Mail by Rail will be published this year. She also published a number of articles in various philatelic journals. She also ran a radio talk show called Stamp Talk and she ran at least two Olymphilex stamp shows at the US Olympics shows (Atlanta and Utah).

She passed away on January 29, 2024, in Cape Cod, leaving her husband, Douglas Clark; two daughters, Ruth Hansen and her husband Russ, Jennifer Webber; granddaughters Delilah and Elizabeth Hansen; her sister Priscilla Brown Elliott; niece Susan Fagan and nephew Andrew Elliott; her other (like a sister) Christine Ranhosky; as well as two stepbrothers, Keryn Joyce and Mark Joyce.

She was the granddaughter of Dr. Freeman Brown and his wife Nancy, and Gladys Moore Thomas of Rockland, Maine.

Local arrangements are in the care of Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland.