Harrison F. Nichols, 1887-1917

NICHOLS, DEGRAFF, VROOMAN, BALDWIN

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/8/2013 at 13:06:40

Died at Mason City

The following obituary of the late Harry Nichols, a former Spencer boy, will be read with sorrow by a large circle of friends who knew him in his boyhood days:

Harrison Floyd Nichols was born at Vinton, Iowa, December 7, 1887, and passed away at his home in Mason City August 24, 1917, being at the time of his death 29 years old.

He had been a patient sufferer for about ten months, having an incurable disease, cancer of the stomach.

Mr. Nichols came with his parents to Spencer when he was five years of age, living here about eleven years, returning again in 1908 when be lived here for a year. Since that time he has been a traveling salesman making his home at Mason City.

He was married on December, 1911, o Miss Flossie De Graff at Ames,Iowa. He was a member of the First Methodist church of Mason City.

Mr. Nichols was preceded in death by his father, two brothers and three sisters.

Funeral services were held August 25th at his home in Mason City and the remains accompanied by the family were brought to Spencer and interred in Riverside cemetery, the Masonic lodge of which he was a loyal member having charge of the services.

Mr. Nichols was a highly respected citizen being loved by all who knew him. There are left to mourn his loss his wife, mother, Mrs. Anna Nichols, three sisters, Mrs. Mabel Vrooman of Mason City, Mrs. C. E. Baldwin of Spencer, Mrs. L. H. Moore of Cylinder and two brothers, Cecil and Leland Nichols of Mason City.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; August 29, 1917.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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