Jack Edward Nail

Featured in: August 2015

NAIL — Jack Edward, 86; born Oct. 31, 1928, Terre Haute, Ind.; died April 3, 2015, Tullahoma, Tenn. Surviving: wife, Anna Mae (Morris); sons, Theodore Michael Nail, Tullahoma; Jonathan Andrew Nail, Shiloh, Ill.; daughters, Jacquelyn Ann (Nail) Elliott, Burtonsville, Md.; Lynda Kay (Nail) Feldmann, Derwood, Md.; 6 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Jack Edward Nail (aka Uncle Jack) was the  Idaho Conference youth ministries director from 1973–1977. He also served at Indiana Academy as boys dean in late 1950s; in Atlanta, Ga., as a teacher; Houston, Texas as the principal at the Houston Jr. Academy; Kansas City, Mo., as the youth director; Boise, Idaho as the youth director; Columbia, Md., as the youth director. 

Jack was the nephew of the late Theodore Lucas who was the World Youth Leader of the General Conference back in 1960s. In his retirement, Jack and his wife, Ann, were faithful supporters of God’s work and Adventist Education.