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At the Winnipeg Free Press Passages website, I found an obituary for a Jean Nelson who was the widow of an Alec Nelson but there was no mention of a daughter named Ruth - just a son and daughter-in-law. It mentions she was predeceased by her husband and a number of siblings but again no mention of a daughter. It gives the year of death for her late husband as 1988. That year isn't covered in the Passages database and I can't check the Free Press Archives until later tomorrow because the site is undergoing a server upgrade at the moment. Once it's back up I'll check to see if there is an obit for Alec Nelson so we can see if it's the right man.
Jacquie
Canada: Patterson, Brown, Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Johnston(e), Gorsuch, Kitchin/Kitchen
United States: Patterson, Smith, Brown, Vance, Bower(s), Newberry, Best, Love, Gorsuch
England (Northumberland): Brown, Whitfield, Henderson
Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, East Lothian): Johnston(e), Bell, Galloway, Campbell, Robertson, Williamson, Thomson, Crawford
Germans from Russia: Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Meach, Lorenz