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Germany. In 1976, George married Anne Applegarth. George had the family gift for coaching and mentoring.
George spent the early 1960s assisting his high school alma mater’s football team. He returned in the late 1990s, making a positive and lasting impact on hun- dreds of players; he considered that his ultimate job was to provide intangibles that did not show up in the
box score. George was a master storyteller who person- ified “never let a few facts stand in the way of a good story.” George is survived by Anne, three children and ten grandchildren.
John L. Nesbitt Q.C., ’86, was eighty-five when he died on August 18th, 2022, predeceased by a daugh- ter and survived by his wife of sixty-seven years, Wen- dy, five children, twelve grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. John attended Ashbury College and Carleton University and studied law at Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1955 and was a lec- turer for the Faculty of Law at the University of Otta- wa until 1975. John loved road trips. He was happiest studying a map, planning camping trips with his fam- ily. An avid skier, camper and golfer, John taught all of his children to ski and introduced them to the beauty
of nature and camping while traveling across the coun- try in the family station wagon. John enjoyed many holidays in New England, Nassau, England, Ireland, Scotland and Mexico. Most recently, John and Wendy called Victoria, B.C. their home away from home.
J. Vincent O’Donnell K.C., Ad.E., ’75, died June 6, 2023 at the age of ninety-two. Vince was the first in his family to pursue higher education. He won a merit scholarship to Loyola College, unlocking the oppor- tunity to study at McGill University and become the star of the football team; he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1955. During a year abroad in Europe as a starving graduate student, he was the poorest he’d ever been but it was the richest he ever felt. Springtime in Paris inspired him to marry his McGill sweetheart Liliane. They were together for fifty years until her death. Together they raised five kids and one Irish wolf- hound in their historic stone house at Préville-en-Bas.
Vince balanced his passion for the law with devotion to his family. Coaching kid’s sports teams or mentoring young legal minds, he fostered fair play and brilliant strategy. Vince is survived by his wife Beverley, four chil- dren, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
William Henry Pugh, IV, ’89, was eighty-six when he passed on May 23, 2023. Bill was a 1958 graduate of Villanova University and a 1961 graduate of Villanova
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