Annette Nemecek

Born January 3, 1941 to parents Julius and Alice Tedder, Annette Nemecek was raised in Hallsboro, NC and attended high school there, graduating in 1959. Afterwards, she studied nursing at Southeastern General Hospital in Lumberton, NC and went on to be an RN at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. A few years later, she met and married Eugene Nemecek of California. They lived in California, North Carolina and Panama before settling into a new life in Astoria, Oregon in 1976 to raise their two sons Jeffrey and Mark. Annette moved to Salem, OR in 1989, then retired in 2004 and became a snowbird - wintering in Arizona - until 2011 when she returned full time to the Pacific Northwest. She moved a final time in 2017 to Beaverton, OR to remain near family.

Annette spent 15 years across her time in Astoria and Salem working as a realtor and mortgage broker before returning to nursing. She found working as a nurse to be extremely gratifying, as she was a caregiver at heart. She led an active social life, was obsessed with frogs, chocolate and anything Christmas-related, and enjoyed bird watching, playing piano, singing, touring the Pacific Northwest, and visiting with family.

She passed peacefully in the early morning of September 28, 2022 in Beaverton, OR with family by her side. She was 81 years old.

She is preceded in death by her parents Julius and Alice Tedder, sister Gladys Palmer, brothers Malcolm and Robert Tedder, and former husband Eugene Nemecek.

Surviving is her son Jeffrey Nemecek and his children Alexandria and Mason of Thousand Oaks, CA; son Mark Nemecek and his wife Kristen Merrill of Portland, OR; sister Nancy Quincy of Southport, NC; brother Fred Tedder of Hallsboro, NC and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews.

A memorial service will be held at noon on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at the Hallsboro Baptist Church in Hallsboro, NC.