Nancy Torlinski Rundell

  
Nancy Torlinski Rundell  
Passed away on August 8, 2016 at Falcons Landing Retired Officers Community in Potomac Falls, VA. She was born October 5, 1922 in Nanticoke, PA, daughter of Nancy Reynolds and Navy Captain and attorney Michael John Torlinski. The family moved to Washington, DC where Nancy attended Woodrow Wilson High School. She graduated from Cornell University at the start of WWII and became a Navy Wave Officer assigned to Boston as Communication Officer. After the war, Nancy was hired by noted publisher Esther Van Wagner Tufty. She left to marry Francis E. "Bud" Rundell, 2nd generation West Point graduate, decorated Air Force officer, B17 pilot and POW, on June 26, 1947 and celebrated 65 loving years together. Nancy was a leader, an author and organizer. She served as officers wives club president, magazine editor, and authored "Front Row Balcony" after a 1978 tour in Iran. She and Bud traveled the world, attended class reunions, played golf, and bridge. Nancy read for the blind, served on scholarship boards, and volunteered for Meals on Wheels. In 1996, they moved to Falcons Landing. Nancy was on the first Board and continued to contribute as librarian, internal TV show interviewer and host. Nancy is preceded in death by her parents and husband. She is survived by her sister, Eunice in Florida; two daughters, Susan of San Diego and Leslie of Sonoma, CA. A Memorial Service will be held September 21, at 2 p.m. Falcons Landing, Potomac Falls, VA. Internment at Arlington National Cemetery will be at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Alzheimer''s Disease Research.Please share condolences with the family at www.LoudounFuneralChapel.com