George H. Nimick ’48

GEORGE NIMICK DIED July 5, 1994, in Wyoming, in the great West that was his lifelong love. George was a born rancher; ranching was his business and his vocation for more than 40 years.

George grew up in Pittsburgh, went to Shady Side, and graduated from St. Paul's in Concord, N.H. He was in the navy for two years and interrupted his Princeton education to go sheep-ranching on the prairie.

He lived in Patton with quite a group that included Jack Weidlein and Billy Talbott. His senior thesis in the history department recounted the various wars in his beloved Johnson County, including the last time the cavalry was called out to settle a dispute between the homesteaders and the Texas­based cattle-drive types (many of them European investors), He belonged to Cap and Gown and graduated in June 1951.

George lived and ranched in Buffalo, Wyo., and was very involved in the local community. He was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church; served the Jackson County school board and the board of Eagle Rock Camp for Crippled Children and Adults; and was chairman of Canex, a ranchers cooperative.

George and Berry married in 1953 and took great delight in their three sons, three daughters, and seven grandchildren. To Betty; daughters Terry, Bettina, and Mary; sons Howdy, Earl, and Burr: and brother Tom '45, the class extends its deepest sympathy and shares in their loss.