Susan Condrey Nagyszekelyi-Keck

Born Susan Stuart Condrey to Bailey and Sally Condrey of Richmond, VA, she died in the evening of June 30th at Bryn Mawr Hospital as the Strawberry Moon of 2026 was rising in the nighttime sky. As one of four children, she accompanied her mother and siblings to Bayville Farms in Virginia Beach on many occasions to pick strawberries.  An interesting coincidence. The family home resided in VA Beach for more than five decades.

As a teenager she became a docent at the Thoroughgood House in Virginia Beach. The house is historically noted as the oldest brick home in North America.  She was quite attentive to the details and artifacts related to the structure and its owner Adam Thoroughgood. She was very proud of her Virginia heritage, a granddaughter of a cattle rancher and a past sheriff of Montgomery County, VA.

Mrs. Keck attended Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, and then moved to Newark, DE, as a young woman where she held progressively more important jobs at upscale country clubs in the region.  While employed at the venerable Greenville Country Club in Wilmington, DE, she met her future husband, Paul Nagyszekelyi-Keck.  They were married for 23-years, until his death in 2005.

Susan worked for many years at the Philadelphia Country Club where she became an events manager. Over decades her hostessing skills were on full display at social gatherings across the Philadelphia region.  The 75th birthday party she held for her husband Paul at the DuPont Hotel was spectacular.  She sponsored a table at Longwood Gardens centennial celebration in 2006.

Susan was kind to everyone she ever met, a fighter and unapologetically independent.  She possessed a hearty laugh, an infectious giggle, and was likely to say, “I can’t complain.” A longtime scribe of numerous news outlets has been lost.  In her younger years, she was likened to one of the four brunettes in Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” music video.  She struggled with lupus for many decades while working full-time and managing a household.  In the end, it was complications from lupus that ended her life.  

She is survived by a sister, Harriett W. Condrey of Richmond, VA, and a brother, Bailey L. Condrey, Jr. of Kensington, MD, and his wife Gail Aimee Dalferes. She is predeceased by her parents, Bailey L. Condrey, Sally C. Condrey, and a brother James Alfred Lee Condrey, all of VA Beach.

A memorial service and internment will be held graveside at Glenwood Memorial Cemetery, 2321 West Chester Pike, Broomall, PA, 19008; Tuesday, July 7, at 11:00 a.m.

She will be missed by those who knew her and welcomed by St. Peter.