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Mary Nicholas-Vanderhoof RUTLAND Mary Ellen Nicholas-Vanderhoof, The Meadows, Rutland, Vermont, previously of Leesburg and Boyce, Virginia, went to be with the Lord Dec. 26, 2020, surrounded by family; she was 75. She was born to C. David and Ruth Vanderhoof on Dec. 23, 1945, at St. Joseph s Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey. As a youngster, her passion for animals began at an early age when she convinced her father to build a barn and support the acquisition of a couple of Toggenburg goats. Mary Ellen graduated from Iowa State University in 1968 with a degree in Agricultural Journalism and was married in 1969 to John Nicholas. She worked for the Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC, until she and John purchased a farm in Leesburg, Virginia, where they raised Limousin cattle and what would become her passion, an endangered large breed of donkey, American Mammoth Jackstock. She raised these and sold them all over the United States for at least 25 years with a few landing ba ....