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Nancy O'Neill Obituary
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O'NEILL, Nancy Nancy Layfield O'Neill died May 5, 2010, due to complications following surgery. She was born in McRae, Georgia April 16, 1937 to the late Ralph Thomas Layfield and Aline Futch Layfield. She graduated from Northside High School in 1955 and attended Auburn University where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority. She was an Executive Assistant with The Life Insurance Company of Georgia. Later she became an assistant teacher at The Lovett School where her children were students. Relocating to Hilton Head Island in 1979, she started her own interior design firm, Nancy O'Neill Interiors, and she was a member of I.S.I.D. In 1989, her design business brought her back to Atlanta. After many successful years, she retired because of her health. During her retirement, she spent time enjoying her grandchildren and family, but remaining a designer at heart for family and friends. Survivors include a son, Thomas Wayne O'Neill and his wife Lorie, a daughter Ellen O'Neill Driskell, and her husband Tony, a sister Linda Farr and her husband Bill, four grandchildren, Griffin Driskell, Cooper Driskell, Aline O'Neill, and Maggie O'Neill, and several nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held on Thursday May 13, at 11am in Dobbs Chapel at Trinity Presbyterian Church 3003 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, GA. Arrangements by Cremation Society of the SOUTH in Marietta 770-420-5557.
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Carrie Nelle Moye
May 12, 2010
Nancy O'Neill was absolutely the best friend an individual could have. In 1968, Nancy and her Ellen and I with my Ashley Claire (both little girls being three)began a bond that transcended friendship and was, indeed, like family.
We vacationed together, talked as often as possible and otherwise considered ourselves to be each other's extended family. Even when I was in the Middle East for eleven years, when I would return for my two-weeks yearly vacation, we met, whether here in Florida or in Hilton Head.
Nancy had a difficult life in many ways but she never succombed to her adversities. Indeed, my children would chastise me for not being more like Nancy, though I had what most people would consider to be a most successful life.
Nancy's dying has left a ragged hole in my heart and my Ashley Claire, who considered Nancy a second mother, wrote me (from the UK) that she was so stressed over the death that she could hardly cope.
Our memories of Nancy will go with us until we have met our own end(s). And Nancy's legacy of Ellen and Tom and her four grands will always be in our hearts.
With the sorrow that only such a love can bring, I bid Nancy an "adieu" that I feel she is experiencing with me,
Carrie Nelle (Moye)
Carla Gyetvan
May 11, 2010
During her years on Hilton Head Island and Atlanta, Nancy was a fabulous interior designer and a dear, dear friend. Her gracious southern spirit will remain in my heart forever.
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