Hilroy Nathanson
Passed on: December 26th, 2008
76, Halifax The Hon. Hilroy Nathanson, 76, of Halifax, passed away Friday, Dec. 26, 2008, at Victoria General Hospital. Born in New Glasgow, N.S., in 1932, he attended schools in Glace Bay, N.S., graduated from Provincial Normal College, Truro, the University of Kings College, Halifax, and Dalhousie University Law School, Halifax. He was vice principal of Park School, Dartmouth for two years in the early 1950s. Then, for 23 years, he practised law in Sydney, N.S., where he was president of the Cape Breton Barristers Society and vice-president of Temple Sons of Israel. He also served as the president of the Kinsmen Club of Sydney and chairman of the Cape Breton Advisory Board of the CNIB. He was appointed Queens Counsel in 1975. He was a member of the Law Reform Advisory Commission and then first vice-president of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society. Then, in 1982, he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He and his family moved to Halifax where he served on the board of governors of Shaar Shalom Congregation and the University of Kings College. He was also a member of the Halifax Management Board of the CNIB for a few years. He retired in 2007. He is survived by his wife, Fannie (nee David of Sydney), Kendall (and Chaim) Wigoda, Ra'anana, Israel, Peter (and Catherine) Nathanson, Wolfville, N.S., and Jan Nathanson, Toronto. He is survived also by his six grandchildren, Oren, Ari, Zeve and Yael, Quinn and Ben; brother, Lawrence, Toronto, and sister, Norma, Connecticut. He was predeceased by his parents, Joseph and Fania, brothers, Nardy and Danny and his sister, Doreen. A perfectionist at work, he was perfection at home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the charity of your choice. The funeral was held Sunday, Dec. 28 at 9 a.m. at the Shaar Shalom Synagogue, Oxford Street, Halifax. Interment at Temple Sons of Israel Cemetery, Sydney.
