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GoLocalProv | Obituaries | She Was Planning to Be a Waitress and Became a Researcher, Frances Elizabeth Nash Dies at 99
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Frances Elizabeth Nash, previously Frances Elizabeth Agar, handed away on January 3, 2022, at age 99. She was in her residence in Kingston, Rhode Island along with her son Eric Nash.
She is survived by her sons, Jon and Eric Nash, her daughter, Susan Nash, and her grandsons, William Wahby, Finnegan Torrey and Julian Torrey. She was predeceased by her daughter, Deborah A. Nash and her husband, Charles D. Nash Jr.
Frances was born in Utica, New York to her father, Justus B. Agar and her mom, “Frankie” Agar, previously Frankie Johnson.
In accordance with Frances, she had deliberate on a profession as a waitress, however was sidetracked from this purpose by receiving a full scholarship to Syracuse College on account of her efficiency on the New York state Regents’ examination. She acquired a Bachelor’s in diet.
She then acquired a scholarship to Yale College in one in every of their first applications for a Grasp’s in Nursing. She accomplished this program receiving her Grasp’s in 1947. She met her husband, Charles Nash, Jr., whereas attending Yale College.
Later in life, she accomplished a Nurse Practitioner with a specialty in Girls’s Well being. She used her nursing training and abilities in serving her communities in several capacities through the years. She labored for a short while in analysis, together with a research of “Human Exposures to Linear Deceleration” with John Workers of the USAF. She additionally labored as a nurse teacher, as a faculty nurse, as a neighborhood nurse, and in Deliberate Parenthood.
She at all times made time to achieve out to these in want! After she retired from nursing she spent a few years as a Fish and Wildlife Volunteer on the wildlife refuges in Rhode Island.
An off-the-cuff service might be held July 24, 2022 at her residence in Rhode Island. Please contact us for extra info: [email protected] In lieu of flowers donations could also be made to: “Mates of the Nationwide Wildlife Refuges of Rhode Island”, 50 Bend Rd., Charleston, RI 02813 tel # 401 364 9124.
Rhode Island
Watch Out For Phone Scammers Posing As Officers: Bristol Police
BRISTOL, RI — Bristol police have urged residents to watch out for phone scammers posing as officers.
Police said there is a recent scam of someone calling people claiming to be a police officer to steal money.
“Please be aware that the Bristol police, or any legitimate police agency, will never ask you for money over the phone,” A Bristol police spokesperson said. “We will never request that you deposit money into a Bitcoin ATM, purchase gift cards for payment, or wire us any money.”
Anyone who receives a suspicious call is asked to call Bristol police at 401-253-6900.
Have a news tip? Email jimmy.bentley@patch.com.
Rhode Island
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For more information on Danielle, you can follow her on Instagram here.
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