LEST WE FORGET 295 NEITHERCUT, C. J. H. “Herb” WWII Herb was born on February 26, 1919, in Truax, Saskatchewan. He served in the Army with the Regina Rifles Regiment (Postal Corps) during World War II. Herb passed away on March 16, 2010. NICE, G. T. “Fred” WWII Fred was born in 1902 in England. He came with his parents to Rosetown, Saskatchewan in 1911, then south to homestead in the Mondou district. Fred met and married Rose Gagnon in Hudson Bay in 1945. Fred joined the Forces in 1941 and served in World War II for five years. He and Rose returned to the Mondou District from Hudson Bay in 1952 and moved to Elrose to live in 1960 where they have since passed on. Fred in 1985 and Rose in 1996. NELSON, Everett T. WWII Everett was born in 1914. The second son of Jake and Bessie Nelson of Ceylon, Saskatchewan, he grew up on a farm and went to school there. His mother was a very musical piano player who inspired all of her six children. Everett taught himself guitar from a mail order course. In the 1930’s he played bass fiddle with a traveling band. He married Ada Smith, his high school sweetheart, and enlisted in 1939. He was a member of the Regina Army Band. As he said, “We were the guys who sent them off and welcomed them back”. As a bugler he played Reveille and Taps many, many times in the Army and later at Legion services. He was playing on CKRM when the birth of his daughter, Sylvia, was announced in 1947. He took over his father’s farm that year as well. He inspired the musical talents of his daughter and two grandchildren. In retirement he took his bass fiddle many times to Arizona and was giving guitar lessons in Radville in his last years. Everett passed away in 2011.
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