Lawrence M. Weber & Nancy A. (nee Nunamaker) Nigh Weber Portrait

Nancy was born in Hagerstown, attended Howard Street School, South Potomac Junior High and graduated from South Hagerstown High School in 1957. She went to Washington County Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1960 as an R.N.. She worked in the hospital’s delivery room for eight years, and then as a nurse at OB-GYN Associates and subsequently for Dr. Lynn Rider.

Nancy and W. Keller Nigh III (SHHS Class of 1958) were married on May 28, 1960. They had four children, Kelly, Kurt, Brad and Doug. Nancy earned her real estate license and worked with her husband in his real estate and insurance business, Keller Nigh Enterprises. After Keller’s death in 1995, she worked as an administrative assistant at Williamsport Retirement Village until her retirement in 2005.

Larry was born in Harleysville, PA and moved to Hagerstown in 1953. After one year at South Potomac Junior High School he graduated from North Hagerstown High School in 1957. He attended one year at Hagerstown Junior College, and later earned his B.S. degree at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA.

Larry worked at WJEJ while in high school and college, and then at several radio and television stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio before joining Ketchum, Inc., a professional fund-raising firm in Pittsburgh in 1969. His career spanned 23 years. He became president of the firm in 1985, and then resigned in 1992 to become vice chancellor for institutional advancement at the University of Pittsburgh. After four years at the university, he formed his own fund-raising counseling business, and retired in 2005.

Larry married the late Sally R. Launtz on August 15, 1959 in Johnstown, PA, and they had three children, Lori, Jeff and Brad. She died in 2001.

Nancy and Larry were married on January 19, 2003. They live just south of Hagerstown on Shaffer Road. Together they have 17 grandchildren with two more expected in October of 2005. Nancy’s daughter, Kelly, died in September, 2002, after a 13-year battle with cancer.