Helen Jane Sweet and John Pritchard Nash

JOHN PRITCHARD NASH was born December 29, 1908 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin,⁶⁶⁰⁷ and died March 8, 1994 in Manitowoc, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.⁴⁵⁶

He married HELEN JANE SWEET on September 16, 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia,²⁰¹¹ daughter of MARY HOLLEY LOUGEE and JOHN COCHRANE SWEET. She was born December 7, 1915 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota,^{75, 13} and died October 17, 1986 in Santa Barbara County, California.²⁵⁰ She is buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota.⁷⁷

• Descendant Reports
  • William Scott Descendant Report (Ancestor of Helen J. Sweet)

• John Pritchard Nash was also called Jack.⁶⁶⁶²

Milwaukee Journal, September 16, 1943²⁰¹¹

Helen Jane Sweet Exchanges Wedding Vows With Lieut. Nash

IN THE chapel of St. John's Episcopal church, Washington, D. C., with only the immediate families in attendance, the Rev. John McGee read the services Thursday afternoon that united in marriage Miss Helen Jane Sweet of Minneapolis, Minn., and Lieut. John Pritchard Nash of Manitowoc, Wis. Lieut. Nash is of the judge advocate general's department in Washington and is the son of the Archie Lyman Nashes of Manitowoc.

The former Miss Sweet, daughter of the John Cochran Sweets of Minneapolis, wore traditional white satin for the service and carried a prayer book, across the open face of which lay a spray of white orchids. Miss Edith Sperry of Washington, her cousin, and Miss Brooks Potter of Pasadena, Calif., her niece, were her attendants.

George Roudebush of Washington, a former classmate of Lieut. Nash in Harvard university law school, Cambridge, Mass., was best man.

Following the service, the young people greeted their relatives and closest friends at a reception at the Mayflower hotel. Present from Manitowoc were the bridegroom's parents and his sister, Mrs. Wistar Ambler of New York, who spent her summer in Manitowoc. Mr. Amber joined his wife in Washington and both will return to New York.

The bride, prominent in Junior league activities and war work in Minneapolis, is a graduate of Northrop Collegiate school there and Smith college, Northampton, Mass. She also attended the University of Minnesota. Her husband attended Lawrenceville school, Lawrenceville, N. J., and is a graduate of Princeton university, Princeton, N. J., and the Harvard law school.

Minneapolis Star and Tribune, November 9, 1986⁵²⁸⁰

Nash

Helen Jane Sweet, age 69, of Santa Barbara. Survived by sister, Margaret Potter Lang; 6 nieces & nephews. Preceded in death by sisters, Catherine Sweet Anderson and Polly Sweet. Helen was a graduate of Northrup Collegiate School and Smith College. Graveside services at Lakewood Cemetery, Mon., Nov. 10th, 1 pm. Memorials to donor's choice or Mental Health Assoc.