Haley married Michael Culver on 29 May 2010. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Melissa Matson on 1 Mar 1980 in San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA. Melissa was born on 1 Oct 1953. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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OBITUARY
Fritz Nachant; self-made man was pilot, hunter and entrepreneur

By Blanca Gonzalez
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

October 17, 2008

Fritz Nachant was about 8 years old when he traded in his violin for a hunting rifle.
His mother had bought the instrument for him a year earlier, and although he didn't like it, he practiced and played it for her.
But his love of the outdoors prompted him to swap his violin for a rifle at a pawnshop. Over the years he became an avid hunter, taking trips to Alaska, Siberia, Panama and Africa and counting Chuck Yeager and Gen. Jimmy Doolittle among his hunting buddies.
He helped start the Safari Club in Los Angeles in 1971. The L.A.-based group eventually became Safari Club International, a worldwide group that promotes hunters' rights and wildlife conservation.
A self-made man who didn't graduate high school, Mr. Nachant ran a successful contracting business for more than 30 years. He credited the youth organization DeMolay for putting him on the track to success.
Mr. Nachant died of heart failure Oct. 2 at San Diego Hospice. He was 91.
His daughter, Susan Lindsay, said her father was an entrepreneur from an early age, delivering newspapers on his bicycle when he was 6. By the time he was 14, he was selling newspapers to the Navy ships in the San Diego harbor, rowing his boat from one ship to the next.
He was a teenager when his mother encouraged him to join DeMolay. “He said he was a smart-alecky kid making money selling newspapers so he decided to look into it,” Lindsay said. “He felt he didn't have direction, but he knew he wanted to do something with his life. He said the values he learned (from DeMolay) helped form his success.”
As an adult, he became a Mason and a Shriner and enjoyed marching in parades and raising money for the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
In the mid-1940s, he began working in construction. He eventually started his own business after earning his general contractor's license and built many service stations and auto repair shops in the region, Lindsay said.
Early in his career, Mr. Nachant was advised by a friend to take up golf if he wanted to move ahead in business so he took his first golf lesson. After the lesson he went to nearby Gillespie Field to visit a friend who worked at the airport.
The friend told him he should learn to fly instead of learning golf and took him for a plane ride. “He started flying lessons and never picked up the golf clubs again,” his daughter said.
Mr. Nachant earned his pilot's license in the late 1950s and became an active member of the San Diego Sheriff's Search and Rescue Aero Squadron, volunteering to fly his aircraft to search for lost hikers and downed planes.
He stopped flying in the late 1970s but he made one last flight as a co-pilot when he flew to the North Pole at age 80.
Fritz August Nachant was born June 3, 1917, in San Diego to August and Elsie Nachant. He lived in the Los Angeles area for a time but spent most of his life in San Diego.
He worked for Consolidated Aircraft and became a foreman of the B-24 outer wing department before going into construction. He married the former Elise “Dede” Quitsow of San Diego in 1940. The couple had three children. She died in 1974. Mr. Nachant married Anna DeSimone in 1980.
He was a longtime supporter of the Salvation Army and the conservation group Ducks Unlimited.
Mr. Nachant is survived by his wife, Anna of San Diego, his children, Susan Lindsay of La Mesa, Sally Reynolds of La Mesa and Paul Nachant of San Diego; stepchildren, Claudia DeSimone of San Diego, Adrianna Issakov of La Jolla and Vanda Scates of Santee; eight grandchildren; five step-grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at the Musicians Hall, 1717 Morena Blvd., San Diego.
The family suggests donations to San Diego Hospice, 4311 Third Ave., San Diego, CA, 92103.

Fritz married Elise Veturia Quitsow. Elise (daughter of Chauncey Marvin Quitsow and Florence Harrison) was born on 19 Mar 1920 in Arizona, USA; died on 4 Feb 1974 in San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nachant v. Montieth, 299 S.W. 888 (Tex. 1927)
Texas Supreme Court
Filed: November 30th, 1927
Precedential Status: Precedential
Citations: 299 S.W. 888, 117 Tex. 214
Docket Number: No. 4893.
Author: R.H. Harvey

The relators, August Nachant and others, seek the issuance by the Supreme Court of a writ of mandamus against the Honorable W. E. Monteith, Judge of the District Court for the Sixty-first District, requiring him to observe and give full force and effect to the judgment of dismissal hereinafter mentioned. On November 8, 1926, and for several years prior to that date, there was pending in said district court a suit which was numbered 63,787 and styled G. H. Herman v. August Nachant, et al. On the date mentioned, November 8, 1926, a judgment of dismissal for lack of prosecution was entered in the suit. The suit was one of trespass to try title that had been instituted by G. H. Herman against the relators as defendants. Prior to such dismissal, G. H. Herman died and his representatives, who are co-respondents here, duly made themselves *Page 217 parties plaintiff in his stead. After the judgment of dismissal was entered the plaintiffs in the suit failed to file a motion for new trial or any other character of pleading within thirty days from the entry of the dismissal judgment. On January 12, 1927, they filed a pleading, bearing the same style and number of the dismissed suit, which pleading they denominated their "Motion to Reinstate and Bill of Review." The defendants in the dismissed suit, who are the relators here, waived citation and filed answer to this pleading. Afterwards the plaintiffs, under leave of court, filed an amended "Motion to Reinstate and Bill of Review," and the defendants filed an amended answer in response thereto. Thereupon the court, on July 1st, 1927, heard the said pleadings of the parties, and the evidence offered by the plaintiffs; and entered judgment purporting to set aside the dismissal judgment of November 8, 1926; and set the case down for further hearing on the merits at a later date. The relators strenuously resisted such action of the court on the alleged ground that the court was without jurisdiction because the term of court at which the dismissal judgment was entered had terminated, as respects the case in which such judgment was entered, prior to the filing of the original motion to reinstate and bill of review. And it is upon this ground that the relators seek the mandamus here, contending in effect that the purported motion and bill of review constitutes nothing more than an ordinary motion for new trial.
The amended "Motion to Re-instate and Bill of Review," apart from its number and style, bears the earmarks of a petition in an independent suit for equitable relief. Its formal parts are those of a petition; and issues of fact are tendered as constituting a cause of action. It alleges an action of trespass to try title, describing the land involved in the dismissed suit. It alleges the former pendency of the suit, and the entry of the dismissal judgment, and alleges facts as showing that the dismissal was entered through accident and mistake. It also alleges facts as showing that the plaintiffs, through no fault of theirs, were unaware of such dismissal judgment having been entered until January 11, 1927; and facts are alleged as showing that the plaintiffs were not negligent in the premises. It alleges in detail a meritorious cause of action for the recovery of said land, which will be lost if the dismissal judgment is not vacated. It contains allegations of fact as showing that an appeal or writ of error will not afford the plaintiffs adequate relief from the destructive effects which the dismissal judgment has on their cause of action. Without summarizing further, it is deemed sufficient for us to say, *Page 218 that the pleading alleges facts in detail as affording the plaintiffs therein equitable grounds for the vacating of said judgment; the existence and sufficiency of which alleged facts the trial court, as a court of first instance, has jurisdiction to determine.
We do not find it necessary to consider that provision contained in Section 30 of Article 2092 of the Statutes, which relates to bills of review. For it is our opinion that, regardless of that statute, the trial court had jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the plaintiffs' so-called Motion to Reinstate and Bill of Review. The averments of this pleading are of such nature as to require the trial court to take cognizance of the matters presented, as of a new suit seeking equitable relief, even if such pleading should not be entertained as a continuation of the old suit. Galbraith v. Bishop, 287 S.W. 1087; Osborne v. Younger, 235 S.W. 558.
The judgment, in respect of which the plaintiffs in said pleading seek relief, is one of dismissal. Therefore it is of no consequence, in this proceeding for mandamus, whether the interlocutory order of July 1, 1927, purporting to set aside such judgment, does or does not effect that purpose. A decision in this proceeding does not require a determination as to the effectiveness of such interlocutory order, and we express no opinion in that regard.
We recommend that the application for mandamus be refused.
The opinion of the Commission of Appeals is adopted, and the mandamus refused.
C. M. Cureton, Chief Justice.

August married Elsie Rae Lohman. Elsie was born on 17 Aug 1888 in Chatham, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chauncey married Florence Harrison on 24 May 1919 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Florence (daughter of John Tyler Harrison and Florence Moore) was born on 14 Oct 1891 in Texas, USA; died on 12 Nov 1959 in San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA; was buried in San Jose Burial Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]