TRAPNELL, Nathan Holmes

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• Education: Harvard
• Occupation: Founder of Rosebud Farm, Kuranda Australia
• Cause of Death: Cancer

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From Delaware Online Obit:

Rich Trapnell, 61, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2011, after a short but courageous battle with cancer, near his home in Kuranda, Australia. He was predeceased by his parents: Richard W. Trapnell III and Jane Trapnell Buck, as well as his younger brother, Judson B. Trapnell.

Rich grew up in the Wilmington area where he attended Tower Hill School. He graduated from the Westminster School in Simsbury, CT and attended Harvard University. In 1971, Rich moved to Kuranda in North Queensland, Australia where he and several friends, also from Wilmington, started Rosebud Farm and Nursery. For the next forty years Rich planted and created a tropical garden, horticulturally renowned for its collection which he had obtained from his travels to Asia and South America.

Surviving Rich are his two sons, Nathan H. Trapnell and Jonathan (Digby) A. Trapnell, both of Kuranda, Australia; his brother, George H. Trapnell and his wife Kathi of Wilmington, DE; his sister-in-law, Rose C. Trapnell of Charlottesville, VA and five nieces and a nephew.

Private service and burial were held at Rosebud Farm in Kuranda, Australia.

Richard married ARMITAGE, Katherine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1920, Wilmington Ward 7, New Castle, Delaware
• Residence: Jun 1985, Chadds Ford, Delaware, PA, USA

Richard married ANDERSON, Jane Bemis [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• CLER: Y
• Residence: 1912, 209 Tazewell, Bluefield, Mercer, WV, USA

Richard married BEDINGER, Evelina Tucker on 26 Jun 1907 in Anchorage, KY. Evelina (daughter of BEDINGER, Everett Wade and BROOKE, Laura Beverly) was born on 28 Apr 1884 in San Antonio, TX; died on 17 Jul 1973 in Wilmington, New Castle, DE, USA; was buried on 20 Jul 1973 in Zion Cemetery, Charles Town, Jefferson, WV, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Obituary: From Spirit of Jefferson Farmers Advocate: Mrs. Phillip A Beatty Funeral services were held on Friday, July 20, in Zion Episcopal Church here for Mrs. Evelina Tucker Bedinger Beatty, 89, who died on July 17 in Foulk Manor, Wilmington, Delaware where she had resided for six years. The Rev. Roger Henshaw officiated. Burial was in the church yard. She was the widow of Philip A. Beatty, her second husband, who died in 1963. Her first husband, father of her 5 children was the Rev. Richard W. Trapnell, D. D., a native of Charles Town. He died in 1950. Mrs. Beatty is survived by Miss Frederica H. Trapnell, R. W. Trapnell, III and Mrs. James A. Hart, III all of Wilmington. Mrs. R. B. McIntosh of New York City and Mrs. H. R. Rawlings, Jr., of Norfolk, Va; 12 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. She was a member of the Colonial Dames of Delaware and was a desendant of Daniel Bedinger, Henry St. George Tucker and William Lucas, all of this county.
• Residence: 1912, 209 Tazewell, Bluefield, Mercer, WV, USA

Oliver married BEMIS, Jane Thomas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]