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Nina Isabel Guard, daughter of John Etheridge Guard, Jr.
(1887-1960) and Cora Ritchie (1897-1983) was born in Currituck County on
April 3, 1927 and died in Bremerton, Washington on Feb. 17, 2008. Nina
graduated from
Poplar Branch High School in 1941 at the age of 14. She attended Mars
Hill College where she is listed in the Class of 1944 in their yearbook,
The Laurel.
Nina transferred to the University of North Carolina in 1945 where she
joined the Dialectic Senate Club and in 1946 became its president. As
a senior, she was listed in the 1946
Yackety Yack
yearbook as being "an attractive president of the Debate Council, member of
TKA (Tau Kappa Alpha, a national honorary forensic fraternity), and a quiet
and efficient leader with ideas and a willingness to work". She
received her B.A. Degree in English. Nina married Vernon Willard
Whipple c1947. Vernon was born in Fresno, CA on Aug. 15, 1924 and died
in Medford, Oregon on Dec. 4, 2000. His
obituary appeared in the
Mail Tribune
on Friday, Dec. 15, 2000 with his surname misspelled, however, his
death announcement 10 days earlier
was spelled correctly. Nina and Vernon
had a son named Daniel Bryan Whipple who was born in
Fresno, CA on April 30, 1949. In later years Daniel legally changed
his name to Dandelion B. Treecraft (see
his unusual obituary here). Nina married for the 2nd time to
Robert Vernon "Bob" Bouck, a widower, on Nov. 9, 1961 on Bainbridge Island, Kitsap Co.,
Washington (see marriage record)--this
marriage ended about 10 years later. Bob was born in Washington State
on Oct. 25, 1927 and died July 2, 1997 in Washington. He is buried in
Seabold Cemetery on Bainbridge Island. Photo from the University of North Carolina 1946 Yearbook, Yackety Yack |
