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Subject: Dr. Richard Cabot Nailling, 90, of Asheville, N.C., a native of Union City, died March 1, 2005
Date: 5 Mar 2005 08:13:55 -0700

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Surnames: Nailling, Cary, Dempsey
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From Union City TN Messenger

Dr. Richard Cabot Nailling, 90, of Asheville, N.C., a native of Union City, died March 1, 2005, at Deerfield Skilled Nursing Center in Asheville.

A memorial service will be held at Asheville First Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Saturday, with the Rev. Ron Brown officiating. Private family burial will take place at Calvary Churchyard in Fletcher, N.C.

Friends may call at St. Giles Episcopal Chapel at Deerfield Episcopal Community in Ashe-ville from 4-6 p.m. Friday.

Morris Funeral Home in Asheville is in charge of ar-rangements.

The family requests that memorials be made to Lewis Rathbun Wellness Center, 121 Sherwood Road, Asheville, NC 28803 or Alzherimer's Association, WNC Chapter, 31 College St., Asheville, NC 28801.

He was born Jan. 7, 1915, in Union City, son of the late Dr. William Austin and Ima Cary Nailling. He attended Union City High School and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, graduating from Vanderbilt University Medical School in 1940. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa National Scholastic Society and served his internship at Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Dan-ville, Pa. He married the former Marie Eleanor Dempsey of Centralia, Pa., Sept. 30, 1941, in Boston and completed his residency in pathology at Mallory Institute of Pathology at Boston City Hospital.

After developing tuberculosis, he moved to the North Carolina Sanatorium in Black Mountain. His family later moved to an area near Asheville where Dr. Nailling began his long and varied career as a general surgeon with a particular interest in cancer and reconstructive surgery. He was also a "gentleman" farmer.

He is also survived by eight daughters, Mary Elinor Crosby of Houston, Jean Ann Ichimura of Snohomish, Wash., Joan Cary Harpold of Seattle, Virginia Lane of Somerville, Mass., Eliz-abeth Nailling of Tucson, Ariz., Margaret Chmielewski of Wea-verville, N.C., Catherine Parrish of Cary, N.C., and Ima Cary Nailling of Elfland, N.C.; his son, Richard Cabot Jr. of At-lanta; 11 grandchildren; 16 nieces and nephews, including Sam Cary Nailling Jr. of Union City; and several great-nieces and great-nephews, including Catherine Nailling of Union City and Cary Nailling of Oxford, Miss.

He was also preceded in death by four sisters, Mrs. Frank (Ima) Ring, Mary Arden Nailling, Margaret Mary Nailling and Virginia Carvel Nailling; and three brothers, William Austin Nailling Jr., Sam Cary Nailling Sr. and Benjamin Nailling.

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