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Town
worker finds man in bush overlooking new Gravenhurst pool
behind backyard fence
Diana
Nicholls had to cut her grass this week
with
a push lawn mower.
It
may be environmentally- friendly, but the Gravenhurst retiree
wasn’t thinking about that.
She
was thinking about her husband Jim, who died in their First Street
backyard after falling over a back hill.
The
56-year-old landscaper loved cutting grass. His wife said he once
wiped away snow just to see how fast the spring grass was growing
so he could cut it.
Nicholls died after his fall, when he went behind his backyard
fence overlooking the new pool being built. Somehow he tumbled,
and a town worker, who had just turned his grader machine off,
heard the fall in the bushes on the nearby bank.
Nicholls was found on his knees and when the worker came back with
help after calling 911, he was sitting.
He
died on the way to the hospital.
His
wife says police told her that an autopsy showed no sign of a
heart attack or stroke causing the fall.
But
tests are continuing.
“The
fall didn’t kill him,” she said yesterday in her backyard.
The
couple just retired last fall. She was superintendent of the
Centennial Apartment on Winewood for 17 years,the same length of
time they were married.
Jim
was born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., but moved to Canada very early on
and worked odd jobs.
Diana
said he was getting rundown the past year doing what he loved,
lawn maintenance.
She
was at their Kahshe Lake trailer when neighbours called looking
for him.
He is
also survived by three sons in Bracebridge, Trevor, Donald and
Triston. |