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About Nancy Clifton Kinzer

A woman dedicated to random acts of kindness in service of others

Nancy Clifton Kinzer crossed the threshold from this life to the next on June 28, 2022, at the age of 64.

Nancy  was born to Almonese Brown Clifton and Thomas Woodard Clifton on  November 9, 1957, in Dallas, Texas. She was the second of three  children, including her sister, Deborah Clifton Van der Lande, and her  brother, Forrest Bradford Clifton.

Nancy attended the Lovett  School in Atlanta. She graduated from Davidson College in 1979 after  spending her junior year in Montpellier, France. At Davidson she  befriended Mark Kinzer, her future husband.

After graduation,  Nancy moved to Northern California. She lived in Palo Alto, sold  copiers, and learned to drive a stick shift on the hills of San  Francisco.

In 1982, Nancy moved back to Atlanta just in time for  the birth of her first niece and nephew, twins Heather and Bernard Van  der Lande. Nancy worked as a computer programmer for Delta Air Lines  before moving to the Delta Air Lines Foundation, where she worked in  corporate philanthropy. During this period, she and Mark reunited. They  married on November 10, 1990. They have two children, Emily Chesher  Kinzer and Benjamin Thomas Kinzer . Nancy would go on to work  on fundraising campaigns for the United Way of Greater Atlanta, 7 Stages  Theatre, and others. She was an alumna of the Leadership Atlanta Class  of 1995.

Nancy was a long-time member of Decatur Presbyterian  Church, where she served as an elder. After many years as a stay-at-home  mom, she heeded the call to serve God and enrolled at Columbia  Theological Seminary. In 2007, her family decamped to England for the  Fall semester so that Nancy could pursue religious studies at  Westminster College, Cambridge. She received her Master of Divinity in  2011. During the course of her career, Nancy served at Trinity  Presbyterian Church (Decatur, Georgia), Faith Presbyterian Church (Blue  Ridge, Georgia), and Northminster Presbyterian Church (Roswell,  Georgia). Her beloved congregants will remember Nancy for her generous  heart, sound advice, and willingness to address difficult issues head on  both in and out of the pulpit.

In her spare time, Nancy loved to  read mystery novels, try new recipes, do crossword puzzles, and meet  with the book club that she belonged to for more than 20 years. Nancy  also had a knack for planning trips, and her family have many fond  memories of traveling both in and out of the country with her.

Nancy  is predeceased by her father, Tom Clifton; and her stepfather, Ralph  Williams. She is survived by her husband and children, as well as her  mother, Almonese (Nesie) Clifton Williams; siblings, Deborah Van der  Lande and Brad Clifton (Carolyn); step-siblings, Ralph Williams III  (Mary), Nancy Jane Morizio (Michael), John Williams (Susan); and her  nieces and nephews: Heather Van der Lande Cummings (Andrew), Bernard Van  der Lande, Ashley Van der Lande, Billie Clifton, and Thomas Clifton.

In  her final chapter, Nancy showed an appreciation for the sacred in the  mundane, gratitude for the life she had led, and resolute courage in the  face of pain and death. She loved her family fiercely, both the living  and those she held close in loving memory. Her husband and children will  miss her terribly.

In Memory of Nancy Clifton Kinzer

Kathleen O'Connor

Dick & Kathy Brown

Kathleen O'Connor

Give thanks for all things

ON the plucked lute, and likewise

The harp of ten strings.


Have the lifted horn 

Greatly blare, and pronounce it

Good to have been born.


Lend the breath of life

To the stops of the sweet flute

Or capering fife.


And tell the deep drum 

To make, at the right juncture,

Pandemonium.


Then, in grave relief,

Praise too our sorrows on the 

Cello of shared grief.

  -by Richard Wilbur

Lea Walker

Dick & Kathy Brown

Kathleen O'Connor

Nancy and er husband were classmates of mine at Davidson.


It pleases me immensely to  know that Nancy was able to enjoy cello lessons and offer her time and talents to Kulea in the last year of her life. Your mission of creating a harmonious world for the next generation is one that I support heartily. 

Dick & Kathy Brown

Dick & Kathy Brown

Dick & Kathy Brown

Nancy Kinzer was an Associate Pastor at Northminster Presbyterian Church in Roswell, GA. During that time we worked with and grew to love Rev. Kinzer. She was a very special person and will be missed by many.

Debra Harr

Jane & Richard Sams

Dick & Kathy Brown

My friend and Davidson Classmate, Nancy Kinzer, touched the lives of many in a special way, and will be missed greatly.

Barbara W. Grills

Jane & Richard Sams

Jane & Richard Sams

Please accept this gift given in memory of Nancy Clifton Kinzer, with gratitude for the joy your organization gave her in the final days of her life.

Jane & Richard Sams

Jane & Richard Sams

Jane & Richard Sams

In loving memory of Nancy Clifton Kinzer. She made the world a better place by her presence. She will be missed!

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