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Handelman, Nancy M. LAFAYETTE, Calif. Nancy M. Handelman of Lafayette died on March 18, 2014 at the John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif. The daughter of George H. and Marcia M. Handelman, she was born in Pittsburgh on February 8, 1951. She grew up in Troy and graduated from Troy High School and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., where she received a degree in aesthetics, art history and studio art. Her junior year was spent at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. She also studied at the Arts League in New York City and at a special summer program at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in painting and sculpture. She worked for a number of years on the East Coast and on her own in marketing research. She then moved her own company, Nancy Handelman Qualitative Research, to California and successfully advised many major corporations on new products and new projects. She also made many pro bono efforts for historical venues and civic operations. In addition, she opened her own studio in Berkeley, Calif., where she pursued her painting for many years. She exhibited in many shows, particularly on the West Coast and had some paintings at United States embassies abroad as part of a state department program to promote young American artists. Nancy is survived by her mother, Marcia M. Handelman of Troy; her sister, Louise S. of Princeton, N.J.; her brother-in-law, Alexander J. Smits of Princeton; a nephew, Peter D. Smits of Chicago; a nephew, James Robert Smits of New York; an aunt, Beverly M. Steinberg of Pittsburgh and two cousins, Mark W. Steinberg of Northampton, Mass., and Alan J. Steinberg of Pittsburgh. She was predeceased by her father, George H. Handelman. Nancy has willed her body for medical research to the University of California, San Francisco. Services locally will be private. To sign the online guestbook, please visit,levinememorialchapel.com.
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Nancy with friend about 2003
April Showers, 2003
May Flowers, 2003
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