Michael J. Nagy

Michael J. Nagy, 74, a res­i­dent of Sun­bury, passed away Sun­day, May 27, 2012, at River­side Methodist Hos­pi­tal, hav­ing bat­tled severe cir­cu­la­tory prob­lems for sev­eral years.

A native of Bridge­port, Ohio , he was born on July 4, 1937, the son of Alex and Mary Cather­ine Nagy.

Mike served as the Vice Pres­i­dent of his Senior Class and let­tered in both bas­ket­ball and base­ball dur­ing his high school years. He was very proud to have played both high school and post high school base­ball with Phil Niekro, who went onto become well know as a pitcher in the major leagues. He also took great pride in being a school­mate and acquain­tance of Ohio State Uni­ver­sity bas­ket­ball great, John Havlicek.

Mr. Nagy moved his fam­ily to Delaware in 1969 to accept a posi­tion with the Delaware County Bank. He served as Branch Man­ager of the Lon­don Road Office and later the Delaware Cen­ter Branch Man­ager for sev­eral years. He was later named a Vice Pres­i­dent of the bank and served as a mort­gage lender at the main office down­town until his retirement.

Mike was a fos­ter par­ent for over 40 kids from three counties.

Mike was an avid golfer and was a long time mem­ber of Table Rock Golf Course in Sun­bury where he enjoyed many rounds of golf with his group of golf­ing buddies.

He is sur­vived by a son, Eric Michael Nagy of Lewis Cen­ter; two daugh­ters, Cathy Sue Ross of Delaware and Jus­tine of Sun­bury; step-daughter, Lisa (Boston) and her hus­band, Duane Thier­gart­ner of Sun­bury; for­mer daughter-in-law, Mani Nagy of Lewis Cen­ter; grand­chil­dren, Alex Michael Nagy, Tia Rose Nagy and Brooke Leora Nagy, and Evan and Lau­ren Thier­gart­ner; and by a brother, Richard Nagy of Dear­born, Michigan.

Vis­i­ta­tion was held Wednes­day (May 30) at the Robin­son Funeral Home where the funeral ser­vice will be today (Thurs­day, May 31) at 11 a.m. with Pas­tor Wal­lace White officiating.

A fund is being estab­lished in Mike’s mem­ory and to ben­e­fit the DCBDD. This fund­ing will be set aside for peo­ple who are deaf and can not afford an inter­preter. Sign lan­guage for the deaf makes it able for hear­ing impaired to fully enjoy a pri­vate func­tion of hear­ing friends and fam­ily. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion and memo­r­ial envelopes will be avail­able at the funeral home.

Con­do­lences may be expressed to the fam­ily at < www.robinsonfuneralhomeinc.com >.

Posted by Gary Henery on May 30 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.