Ann "Nancy" Horowitz's Obituary
GAINESVILLE, FL - Dr. Ann Horowitz, age 87, neé Holway, Professor of Economics, passed away on Saturday, March 2 , 2024 at Oak Hammock in Gainesville, Florida, after a sudden illness.
Known as “Nancy” to her large circle of professional colleagues and personal friends, she was married to the late Ira Horowitz for 64 years until his passing in 2022.
Nancy was born in Weymouth, MA on August 24, 1936, daughter of the late Lowell H. Holway, Sr. and Ann Donohew Holway. She was a resident of Gainesville, FL, for the past 50 years and was formerly a longtime New Englander.
Raised in Groton, CT, where her father worked as a naval architect for Electric Boat Company, Nancy attended Robert E. Fitch High School. She graduated with a BA in mathematics, summa cum laude, from the University of Connecticut, Storrs in 1958. She earned an MA in Economics from the University of Kansas in 1960 and a PhD in Economics from Indiana University in 1966.
In 1973 she became director of the Florida Econometric Forecasting Project at the University of Florida. She left Florida in 1975 for Washington, D.C., to become a senior economist on the president's Council on Wage and Price Stability. In September 1976 she returned to the University of Florida as an associate professor of economics and coordinator of graduate studies, the latter a position she held on and off for the next sixteen years. In 1978-79, Horowitz was a visiting associate professor of economics at Michigan State University, and she held visiting fellow positions at the City University of Hong Kong in 1992-94 and again in 1997-98 and in 2022. She retired from the University of Florida as an associate professor emerita in July 2000.
Outside of academia, Horowitz was active in a number of government and professional organizations, including serving as Economic Advisor to President Jimmy Carter’s White House.
Nancy and her husband Ira loved to travel, and they lived and taught all over the world: London; Fontainebleau, France; Adelaide, Australia; Hong Kong; Italy; and many other locations. In their later years, summers were spent in San Diego visiting restaurants and attending baseball games of the San Diego Padres.
Despite all their travels, they remained devoted Florida Gators fans, and held season tickets to the football and basketball teams. They had many beloved friends in Gainesville and all over the world.
Nancy had a mischievous and occasionally morbid sense of humor and was very fine company, as her friends can attest. There was a genuine light in her smile that matched the love in her heart. She will be sorely missed.
Nancy is survived by her nephew, Hal Holway, and his wife, Jodie Kalikow Holway, and two great-nephews, Xander and Oliver Holway, all of Westford, MA.
Family and friends are invited to celebrate Nancy’s life at a memorial service at
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville, FL, on Saturday, May 25th, 2024 at 4:00 PM. There will be a reception after the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University, https://secure.jhu.edu/form/wilmer. To share your thoughts and memories of Nancy, please visit https://www.williamsthomasfuneralhome.com/obituaries/.
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