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Van Nimwegen, Barbara Anne, 1941-2016
1941-2016
Barbara Anne Van Nimwegen was born Barbara Anne Byers in 1941 to Donald and Anne Byers of Montreal, Quebec. Barbara attended Miss Edgar's School and Westmount High School. She graduated from the Royal Victoria Hospital Nursing School and worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital as charge nurse on the postpartum ward and operating nurse in the obstetrics operating room. Barbara married Donald Van Nimwegen of Boston, Massachuetts, on October 22, 1966, at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. Following her marriage, Barbara moved to the United States, where she worked in the operating room of St. Margaret's Hospital in Boston. In 1969, she returned to Montreal and had her first child, Derrik, while her husband served in Vietnam. She later moved to Seattle where she had children Michael and Kathryn were born.
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