Mr. Rishaul N.R. Nital

NITAL, Mr. Rishaul N.R. - Age 22, passed away Monday, July 27, 2015 at the V.A. Hospital - Saginaw, MI. Family hour 10 a.m. Saturday, August 29, 2015 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 711 S. Saginaw St., with funeral service commencing at 11 a.m. Father Dan Scheid officiating. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 10 a.m. Saturday. Mr. Nital will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd., and may be viewed from 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday. Rishaul, was born in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands to Julie (James) Arter and Newrish Nital on February 24, 1993. He attended and graduated from Southwestern Academy and was a senior at Alma College, where he was pursuing a degree in Business Administration. Rishaul enjoyed many sports, played baseball into his late teen years, and at the time of his death, was a member of the Alma football defensive line. Throughout his life he enjoyed music and sang in many choirs starting at the age of six in the Virgin Islands. Rishaul was a student of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) from which he received his yellow ribbon the highest level before the gold medal. Through participation in the RSCM course, he had the opportunity to sing at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. In Flint, he was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church where he participated in the boys, children’s, chancel and hand bell choirs. He was a member of the Genesee Company Choral and sang with the Linden Presbyterian Church choir when home from Alma College. Rishaul also enjoyed himself as a member of the College Chorale of Alma. Rishaul was a happy and humorous young man who made friends easily wherever he went and cared about others as seen by the helping hand he extended so easily. He was a loving son and a loyal friend, a hard worker and a dependable team player, who will be greatly missed by his large family and many friends. Rishaul is survived by his parents, Julie Arter and Edward Arter, Jr. of Flint and Newrish Nital of St. Kitts; sisters, Raven Arter of North Carolina, Newrisha Nital in New York, Najee Warner and Naliaka Walters; brothers, Creus Powell, Tremaine and Travis Warner, Chavez Nital, Aneesh-Noel and Nayan Hodge all of St. Kitts; grandparents, Ramona James and Edward Arter, Sr.; aunts and uncles, Dalma James (Catherine), Wilbur James (Clarissa), Cleo Hampson (Anthony), Myron James and Judith James, Gerro James (Janet), Cindy Churchill (Douglas), Michael Arter (Angie), Michelle Mercado (Freddy), and Shawn Arter; cousins, Michelle, Patrick, Kofi, Simone, Ramona, Blair, Theon, Joel James, Cleo-Antoinette and Césaire Hampson, Jevon, Jémari and Ronique James, Gerrelle and Jamique James, Rashida Krigger and Liena Churchill, Cherelle Gray and Colette (James) Bovain; other relatives too numerous to mention. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Lemuel James and Patricia Arter. Rishaul will be remembered with love by so many whose lives he has touched, and we are all better for knowing him in the brief time we had together! We love you, Rishaul, rest in peace with God.

Mr. Rishaul N.R. Nital

February 24, 1993 - July 27, 2015