Honoring the Life and Legacy of
G. Paull Nation Jr.
Obituary
George Paull Nation, Jr. (Paull) passed away at age 60 on March 8 at home with his loving wife Carol by his side and his beloved cat Svetlana playing nearby. He died from pancreatic cancer. He was preceded in death by his parents, George Paull Nation, Sr. and Sally Lou Nation.
Paull was born on June 15, 1961, in Houston, Texas, but at a young age moved to Radnor, Pennsylvania where he lived until he went to college. He got his undergraduate degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He moved to Lubbock, Texas to pursue a master’s degree and it was in Lubbock where he met and married Carol. Together, they moved to Newtown Square, Pennsylvania and lived there for 8 years before moving to Denver, Colorado in 1993.
Paull completed his master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and enjoyed a 35+ year planning career in both public and private sectors.
Although they never had children, Paull and Carol had 4 cats and 1 fish together who they loved just the same: Clyde, Susie, Sammy, Frankie and Svetlana.
Paull is survived by his loving spouse Carol, his beloved cat Svetlana, his loving sister Caroline, and Caroline’s daughter and granddaughters.
There will be an online memorial service on Friday, April 8 at 1:00 PM MT. His wife requests donations to the Denison University Hilltopper Scholarship Fund in lieu of flowers.
Your thoughts and prayers are very much appreciated as Carol and everyone who loved Paull grieves.
Virtual Memorial Service
& Online Reception
Friday, April 8, 2022
1:00pm Mountain Time (MDT)
His wife, Carol Nation invites you to join us for a virtual Memorial Service honoring Paull’s life and legacy. An interactive online reception will take place immediately following. Attendees are invited to bring a candle to light during the service, and their favorite glass of wine for the toast during the reception.
The Virtual Celebration of Life for
David Leon Sheets
Recorded Feb 26, 2021
Goodness of God - David Sheets Memorial Choir
This song embodies the way David Sheets lived his life. In every situation, no matter the difficulty, he would proclaim God’s goodness.
David Sheets lived a life devoted to Jesus. He spent the majority of his career as a music minister & choir director in churches around the US. The Sheets family put out a call for anyone who had served with David to join a virtual choir in his honor. What you see here is just a small picture of his legacy impact on the Kingdom of God. We pray this song blesses you and encourages you today.
Slide Show
Photo Gallery
In Lieu Of Flowers Please Consider Donating To: The Denison Hilltoppers Scholarship Fund
Paull loved music and loved to sing. He joined the Denison Hilltoppers while in college and it was a huge part of his college experience; the friendships he made while in the group continued through the years. It would make his heart happy to know that, in lieu of flowers, people contributed to The Hilltopper Scholarship Fund instead.
NOTE: When making a donation, enter this text into the “Additional Info” section:
The Hilltoppers Scholarship Fund – in memory of Paull Nation
Carol,
Frank and I loved our 6am workouts with you and Paull and the rest of our early morning team! You two always had the best stories and adventures! I will always remember his beautiful smile and wonderful laughter!
Please know we are thinking of you and celebrating a remarkable life. We are so blessed by the time we spent with you two!
With love…Chere and Frank Mequet
Carol,
George and I were so very fond of Paull and will forever miss him. Thank you for curating a moving and heartfelt memorial service, worthy of such an extraordinary man. We valued our double dates to the Comedyworks with you both…hearing his deep bellowing laughter is forever marked in our memories. He will never be forgotten. We love you.
Carol,
As you know Paull and I worked together for many years. He was always extremely helpful with my computer non skills and projects I was working on but never without a joke or a sarcastic comment taken lightly. What a special guy.
We parked next to each other in the garage and always teased each out about any unforeseen door dings as we were both anal about our cars. Sure glad he was my parking mate as I never worried.
I will miss him as a true friend and collage. The service was perfect and extremely well done. You should be proud
Peace be with you.
Geof and Pat
A life well-lived and too short. Paull was a good friend and a great person. He is missed. He will live on in the memories of those that knew him, those ripples in the water he created that continue to spread through peoples’ lives.
Carol,
Cole and I are so very sorry about Paull. The memorial service was a beautiful testament to a beautiful man.
It is my privilege to have known Paull and, even though I only spent time with him on two occasions when you visited the East Coast, I feel that he was my dear old friend, just as he was Cole’s. We feel that fate offered Paull, you, Cole, Collin, and me that beautiful spring night on our patio and we are so grateful to have had, what we didn’t know then, was a last lovely goodbye.
My heart is with you now and always.
Carla Douglass Vastine
Thank you Carol, you’re wonderful to have done this. It was very, very special. Full of love and warmth and incredible positive hopeful feeling. Though it was over 12 years since seeing each other, Paull has never left my heart since he was that young boy i spoke of. So I meant it deeply when I said how grateful I was to see him, and both of you, so happy together, last year. All my love and best to you; I am so glad you have some around you who are so caring to help you through. Love from both us, Celeste and me. She was very happy to have seen you both too. Rollin
Paull, I am truly thankful and blessed to have known you. I’m sorry you were never successful in teaching me to appreciate fine wine though…but thanks for trying:) I enjoyed our time working together and will always appreciate how kind you were to me. I will always remember being able to dive into your office for support and camaraderie. Even if it was just to chat about music, you made the day better just because you were a great guy. Cheers my friend.
I have fond memories of singing with Paull in the Denison Hilltoppers. Thank you for the wonderful memorial service. Praying for you Carol. Take care.
It was such a pleasure to spend the short time with Paull that I did. He was truly a unique human with a huge heart and a wealth of jokes, anecdotes, and positivity. His memorial was beautiful and inspired me to not wait to experience as much of this world as I can. Thank you Paull. Cheers
I worked with Paull in the latter 1990s at the City of Aurora’s Planning Department and when he later served at the City’s Office of Development Assistant when he was a project manager there. We shared many sessions at the pre-application conferences for proposed new development there. He was always a pleasure to work with, pleasant and humorous in his demeaner, as we together tackled some tough challenges relative to land use issues in the growing community.
After our Aurora days, we sometimes crossed paths mainly at planning conferences, where Carol also volunteered to organize, to reminisce and share stories. He was an enjoyable personality and easy to be around. At times, if alone in the office, at a conference, or in a reception, he would always be first one to approach and befriend me. That’s the kind of individual he truly was with everybody and always exhibited that type of character and those great personality traits.
The world needs more of these types of individuals. He will be missed.
All the loving and supporting love and hugs to you Carol and all the family
I met Paull in 1993 when he joined the Planning Department at Aurora. We immediately hit it off as colleagues and found we had much in common including roots from the Buckeye state. We quickly built a trust between us and Paul became a mentor to me, and I hoped I was able to reciprocate the mentoring back to him.
At that time, we were on the cusp of personal computers and Paul was one of those geeks who was a wiz-bang in getting people unstuck. It was through his help with our newly purchased PC @ home, we met his lovely wife Carol and she was even more charming than Paul.
Our friendship with the Nations is now almost 30 years in the making. Even after Paul & I left Aurora, we continued to mentor each other meeting for lunch about every 3 months, and we frequently brought in other colleagues to join us. While we did put our mentoring on hold during Covid, I regret that I did not know that our last lunch would also be the last time as I had looked forward to every conversation.
I miss Paull and his remarkable qualities of empathy, compassion, humor, insight, and just being a damn good listener. He was truly a gentleman, with so many fine qualities, his faults were hard to find.
Paull’s spirit will remain with me, and I wish him the best on his spiritual journey. We were all blessed to have known such a fine person. In time, we will meet again and pick up that mentoring where we left off.
I had the pleasure to work daily with Paull for nine years, with the final five of those in a small office of only 3-5 persons, so I got to know Paull REALLY well! I could count on him to not only be well-versed in the businesses with which we were involved, but also could make sure to get a daily brief from him on the political situation, with some appreciated health and wellness advice thrown in at absolutely no charge. Paull and I shared many of the same quirks (which made him, at least to me, so endearing) and I also could count on him to help me the many times my computer completely messed with my mind. “Paull, I need help!” My funniest memory of Paull was after my only time in two decades of yelling in any office (while on the phone with an Attorney who was harassing my daughter), after which he quietly came into my office and offered me a tablet of l-theanine (which I learned at that time is the “calming” component in green tea), which Paull helpfully kept in his desk drawer, perhaps for this “once in a twenty year” occasion. Paull Nation was truly a great guy, a fun guy, and a caring guy—-my deepest condolences to Carol for her, and our loss…..
My husband Jim and I came to know Paul through Carol and our Meeting One events. It was clear from the beginning that he was someone special. He was striking to look at, tall, handsome, and a face that expressed kindness and caring.
As we got to know him, it was always a smile that came to our faces as he walked through the door, or was just there. He had a spirit that immediately brought you peace, a face you trusted. We always looked forward to seeing him at the MeetingOne events, and little did I know that our last summer party would be our last. We are deeply grateful to have known him. He shared so many of his passions with our MeetingOne team and Carol even sponsored a wine tasting event at MeetingOne, where Paul educated us about wines, shared tasting notes, and outstanding wines (of course!).
Jim also shared with Paul a love for music that was very deep, and geeky! Every time they saw each other, we had to pull them apart and FORCE them to spend time with other MeetingOne employees. For them, their love of music wasn’t a hobby, it was a passion, and one that they shared together.
We are grateful we had a opportunity to spend the time we did with Paul. A great man who will be missed. Sophie Lal
Paull, I often think of the 6 or 7 years we worked together when you were at Galloway. You were a great combination of diplomat, hard ass, therapist (to me). You were really really good at your job, and I miss your awesome sense of humor, your deep laugh, your wry smile. I miss you Paull…..hope to run into you sometime.
We were so sorry to hear of Paull’s passing. We always enjoyed taking to you both on the corner of the circle and the kindness you showed to us and Miles was always appreciated. We are thinking of you and keeping you in our prayers.
Dear Carol and Caroline:
My parents were very close to Casey and Sally Lou having met in the mid-60’s at St Martins Church in Wayne, Pa. They served as my twin brother Mark’s Godparents and were loved by all. Paul was close in age to us and distance but we did not get to see each other often as we live out of state. The last time I saw Paul was in a grocery store in Newtown Square but he looked great and his spirit was the same as ever!
Our mother passed away four years ago but my Dad, Bob Rogers age 90 , joins me, Chuck and Mark Rogers in extending our most sincere and heartfelt condolences on Paul’s passing.
Sincerely,
John Rogers
Hello John,
I’ll be sure to let Caroline now about your post! You definitely go way back with Paull; calling his dad Casey, St. Martin’s Church – those are all familiar, comforting terms from the past!! 🙂
If you viewed the picture gallery, towards the end there’s a picture with Paull and Casey, along with Casey’s relatives, and another with Paull, Sally Lou and Caroline.
Thank you for your condolences and sharing your connection to Paull with me. Newtown Square is where he and I lived after we got married, but before we moved out to Denver, CO in 1993.
Please extend my best and thank you to your family.
Carol
I am so sorry to hear of Paull’s passing. I worked with him briefly at Galloway. He left an indelible mark with his uplifting attitude. My thoughts are with his family. My deepest condolences.
Hi Deborah. Thank you for your condolences. He really strove to be positive and make people feel good about interacting with him.
Paull, it was a pleasure to have known you. You always had a smile and were willing to lend a helping hand. Looking back, I was totally out of my element when I came to Episcopal Academy. You made me feel comfortable and part of the community. Thanks, you will be missed.
Paull, what an honor it was to know you and share in all your 6am joy! 😉 Your Trivida family loved every day we got to train with you and support you. We will continue to remember you smile, your laugh and all the fun we had even though it was 6 am!