NANCY SUE “NAN” (DOOLIN) QUICK

Nancy Sue “Nan” (Doolin) Quick, 84, of Springfield, formerly Dixon, passed away on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the Willard Care Center. She was born in Waynesville on Nov. 20, 1940; the daughter of Willie and Georgia (Sutton) Doolin.
She attended Waynesville Schools and met her husband, Al, while they both worked at Page’s grocery store in St. Robert. On Dec. 1, 1956, they were married at Fort Leonard Wood.
For 21 years, she enjoyed the hardest job in the USMC, Marine wife. She spent most of her life in healthcare, working at the Pulaski County Hospital; Dr. Benny Thomas DO in Dixon and Mercy Hospital in Springfield. In 1979, she became the Center Administrator for the Dixon Senior Citizens Center and later for multiple Senior Center locations in Central Missouri, where hot meals and Meals on Wheels were provided to local seniors.
She was saved at an early age and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dixon, then Galloway Baptist Church in Springfield. She was a member of the Garnet Chapter of the Eastern Star and served on the Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging.
She is survived by her son, Robert of Springfield; daughter Susan (Lee) Howser of Olathe, Kan.; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; her brother, Bill Doolin and bonus kids; Akitoshi Ono of Tokyo, Japan, Dale (Glenda) Quick of Cleveland, and Tracy Razer of Dixon; her niece, Kimberly Riffe of Columbia; along with a host of family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Al; her parents; sister, Mary; brothers, Robert and Benny; several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews; her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Robert and Mildred Quick and brothers and sisters-in-law.
Visitation and services were held on Monday, May 19, at Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home. Burial followed in Missouri Veterans Cemetery.