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Kingussie's Bobby Nield remembered in packed funeral service





Mourners packed into Kingussie Parish Church today (March 16) to celebrate the life of one of the town's favourite sons.

Robert Scott (Bobby) Nield died last week at 72 after a long and brave fight with cancer.

Mourners at today's Kingussie service for Bobby Nield
Mourners at today's Kingussie service for Bobby Nield

Tributes were paid by Rev Mary Ellen Thomson, friend and colleague Kenny Reid and former Kingussie school teacher Donald Emslie with standing room only for latecomers to the service, which featured his favourite hymns Morning Has Broken and Abide With Me.

Bobby, for three decades was, with his brother Freddy, among the Badenoch capital's most popular all-time shopkeepers through the Nield's running of Murchie's until retirement made way for the Co-op.

A former Inverness football star, he had also made time to become the quiet giant of Kingussie community affairs, both as a Justice of the Peace and a driving force behind the creation of the Badenoch Centre.

He was laid to rest at Kincraig's Alvie and Insh Kirk churchyard before a large number of mourners gathered at the Duke of Gordon Hotel back in Kingussie.

The Strathy will be featuring Bobby's full and eventful life shortly in a Past Lives special.


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