OBIT: G. B. Van Nest, 1930, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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G. B. VAN NEST

  Word was received in Meyersdale, last week, of the sudden death of G. B. Van 
Nest of Washington, D.C., uncle of Mrs. S. A. Kendall.  Mr. Van Nest was well 
known in Meyersdale having visited frequently at the home of Hon. and Mrs. S. A. 
Kendall for many years.  He was sick for the last two years, but was able to be 
up and around and take care of his business the last few months.  He had been 
around as usual, Monday, and had gone to his office on 17th and G. Streets, 
where he was proprietor of the District Battery Company.  He later went to 
Georgetown to take care of some business and stepped out of his car to speak to 
a man and collapsed.  He was taken to a Georgetown Hospital, where he was 
pronounced dead, having been stricken with a sudden heart attack.  He was 72 
years old.
  Mr. Van Nest was a native of Johnstown, N.Y.  He spent his early manhood in 
Grundy County, Iowa, and later resided in Chicago until going to Washington, 
where he lived many years.
  In 1893 he married Mrs. Alice Meeker Day, who survives, together with one 
daughter, Freda, at home.  Mrs. W. E. Kretching of Washington, and Alvin N. Day, 
of Los Angeles, daughter and son of Mrs. Van Nest by a former marriage, also 
survive.  Mr. Van Nest's son, Ray, preceded him in death a year and one-half 
ago.
  Mr. Van Nest made many friends in Meyersdale during his frequent visits here 
at the Kendall home.  He was a man of strict integrity and beloved by all who 
knew him intimately.

Meyersdale Republican, December 25, 1930