Nancy Munson

Nancy K. Munson (6/22/1936-5/3/2009) of Huntington, Long Island, daughter of the late Howard H. Munson and the late Edna May Keenan Munson is survived by her brother H. Lee Munson and sister-in-law, Sandra J. Sammis Munson of Greenlawn, LI. She was a prominent attorney and civic leader in Huntington. She belonged to the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Huntington. She was one of the earliest women graduates of Brooklyn Law School in 1967. Born and raised in Huntington, she attended Woodbury Avenue Grade School, Toaz Junior High, and graduated from Huntington High School in 1954. While in high school, she played clarinet with the high school band. She entered banking before completing her undergraduate studies at Hofstra University. Always a leader and active in the community, she was at her death, president of the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, and served on the boards of the Huntington Fire Department scholarship and benefit funds; she was also the attorney for the Huntington Fire Department. She served on the boards of the Huntington Rural Cemetery, St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, the Thomas A. Munson Foundation and its scholarship fund. As an attorney she was admitted to the bars of the State of NY, the US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of NY, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Her practice focused largely on estates and real estate, both residential and commercial and elder law and estate planning. She held strong principles regarding the protection of individual property rights. Her pro bono avocation was in religious corporations law in which she helped any number of Long Island churches to incorporate, dissolve or dispose of property. She founded the Munson law firm in Huntington having succeeded in turn to the practices of the late Merritt Weidner, former Huntington Town Attorney, and Robert Anderson of Northport and New York City. She was a member of the American, New York State, Suffolk County and Brooklyn Bar Associations, and The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. She was a member of was a member of the Soroptimists, the DAR and a life member of the National Rifle Association. She was engaged to the late Myron Rodgers of Greenlawn at the time of his death. She will be best remembered for her many good deeds. She helped people in many different ways without any thought of repayment of how she would benefit from the helping. Her goods works helped not only charitable organization but numerous individuals by giving them what they needed from money to getting them cars. One time she attended a church that needed new steeple bells. Before she left the church they had a check for the bells. She was a wonderful cook. She was not too proud to get her hands dirty by painting a house or the bottom of a boat, or digging a trench. She loved the water and her summer home where she would ride her jet ski and her miniature tug boat. She loved dogs and doted on her dog, Buddy. Visitation Thursday and Friday 2-5 & 7-9 PM at the A.L. Jacobsen Funeral Home, Inc. 1380 New York Avenue, Huntington Station. Firematic Services Friday 8:00 PM. Religious Service Saturday 10:00 AM at the funeral home. Burial to follow at Nassau Knolls Cemetery, Port Washington. For more information please visit www.jacobsenfuneral.com. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the League for Animal Protection of Huntington, St. Francis Hospital, Kent Animal Shelter, or the Huntington Fire Department.

Nancy Munson

June 22, 1936 - May 3, 2009