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Nelson Harold Vail

 

Leading Seaman, Bandsman Apprentice, RCNVR

 

Born: 1918, London, Ontario

 

Died: 02 Feb 1990, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

 

VAIL, Nelson Harold, QC - 71, Wolfville, formerly of Windsor, died Friday in Eastern King's Memorial Hospital. Born in London, Ont. he was a son of the late Walter and Bertha (Crittenden) Vail. He was a Doctor of Chiropractic in Kentville for several years, formerly practising in Brockton, Mass. He was a graduate of Taylor University, Indiana, and the National College of Chiropractic, Chicago. He was a former bus driver with Greyhound Bus Lines, London, for 14 years. He was a former secretary of the examining board of the Nova Scotia Chiropractic Society for several years. He was a veteran of the Second World War, serving overseas in the RCNVR. He is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Newcomb; two daughters, Diann, Merrylee, both of London; four sons, Paul, Lynn, Mass; David, Oxford, England; Ted, Montgomery, Ala; Daniel, Cohasset, Mass; a sister, Edna Anderson, London; a brother, London, England; ten grandchildren. He was predeceased by a daughter, Barbara Lee; two sisters, Dr. Viola Rose, Jean Jackson. The body is in Lindsay's Windsor Funeral Home, where funeral will be 2 p.m. today, Rev. Garnet Parker officiating. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery, Windsor. Donations may be made to any charity. (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Monday, 05 Feb 1990 / Researched by George Newbury)

 

Headstone for LS.BA Nelson Vail at the Maplewood Cemetery, Windsor, NS

Photographer / Courtesy of George Newburh

 


 

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