NICHLESS, Kathryn J.

NICHLESS, SCHNEIDERMAN, LUDWIG, DYKSTRA

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/14/2009 at 15:42:36

"The Fairfield Ledger", Monday, March 9, 2009, Page 8

NICHLESS, Kathryn J. -- Kathryn J. NICHLESS, 76, of Keosauqua, died at 6:40 a.m. Saturday, March 7, 2009, at Van Buren Good Samaritan Center in Keosauqua.

A funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Keosauqua Christian Church, with the Rev. Bill Shewmaker officiating. Burial will be in Fellows Cemetery in Keosauqua.

Open visitation began at 2 p.m. today at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua, where the family will be present from 6:30-8 p.m.

Memorials to Van Buren County Ambulance Service or Van Buren Good Samaritan Center may be left at the funeral home or church or may be mailed to the family at 601 Van Buren St., Keosauqua 52565.

Mrs. NICHLESS was born May 20, 1932, in Carpenter, S.D., the daughter of John and Kate SCHNEIDERMAN LUDWIG. She married Harold E. NICHLESS June 12, 1955, in Dempster, S.D.

Mrs. NICHLESS graduated from Bryant, S.D., High School; Mitchell, S.D., Business School; and Central College in Pella. She and her husband lived in Pella and Belle Plaine. They had lived in Keosauqua, where her husband was a school teacher and administrator, since 1977. They spent many summers in Tucumcari, N.M. Mrs. NICHLESS was a homemaker. She had been a resident of the good samaritan center since September 2008.

She was a member of and organist for Keosauqua Christian Church. She was a member of Christian Women's Fellowship, and in summers, she played the organ at Tucumcari Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include her husband; one daughter, Peggy NICHLESS of West Des Moines; and one son, Hal NICHLESS and wife Marlene of Minneapolis, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Donna DYKSTRA and Lillian LUDWIG; and two brothers, Richard and James LUDWIG.

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