Nancy J. Nadkarni, Esq.

Nancy Joanne Nadkarni, Esq. of East Brunswick, New Jersey, passed away Sunday, September 10, 2017 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. She was 70 years old. Nancy was born in Charleston, West Virginia to Banner Elmore Billings and Ernestine King Billings. Over the course of her life, she lived in many places, including Houston, TX; Lexington, KY where she met her husband; Worthington and Columbus, OH; Bombay, India with her husband's family and where she gave birth to her first child; and Ithaca, New York, before moving to East Brunswick, NJ, 30 years ago. Before retiring in 2014, Nancy had a law practice in East Brunswick. She received her Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the University of Houston. She was a member of the American Bar Association, the Family Law Section of both the Middlesex County Bar Association and the New Jersey Bar Association, and the Mid-Jersey Collaborative Law Alliance. She was an active member of the United Methodist Church in Milltown, where she taught Vacation Bible School. Nancy is survived by her beloved husband Dr. Kishore Nadkarni; her daughters, Sujata Nadkarni, and her partner Steve Pump of Chicago; Sharmila Renee DeCamp, and her husband Michael DeCamp of Manalapan, NJ; Lisha Kirin Nadkarni, and her husband Svanur Pétursson of Brooklyn; her grandsons, Anand and Devan DeCamp; her sister, Winetta Billings, M.D., her nieces Brittany and Heather Wilbourn, and her nephew Connor Wilbourn of Houston. Funeral services will be held Friday, September 15th, 11 am at the United Methodist Church, 47 North Main St., Milltown. Burial will follow at Frost Woods Memorial Park, East Brunswick. Friends and relatives may call on Thursday, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm, at The Crabiel Home for Funerals, 170 N Main St. at Riva Avenue, Milltown. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Nancy's honor to Memorial Sloan Kettering at giving.mskcc.org (personal page at goo.gl/xYALha). You may sign the "obituary" email "guestbook" at www.crabiel.com .