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NICKS, Margaret (Zylstra) 1918-2001

NICKS, ZYLSTRA, TOLSMA

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 8/31/2009 at 20:16:30

Margaret Nicks, 83, of Sibley died Tuesday, June 26, at Country View Manor.
Services were June 28 at First Presbyterian Church, Sibley, with interment in Holman Township Cemetery.

Margaret Zylstra was born May 31, 1918, in Osceola County, the daughter of Peter and Ida (Tolsma) Zylstra. She grew up in the Little Rock area and graduated from Little Rock High School. She received a teaching certificate from Buena Vista College, Storm Lake. She taught in Oscola County. Later she was employed as an Iowa State University Extension office assistant in Osceola County 10 years.

On Nov. 15, 1941, she married Ellison Nicks. They farmed in the Little Rock and Sibley areas until retiring in 1982.

Her husband died Dec. 4, 1996.

Survivors include two sons, James of Tracy, Minn., and David of Spencer; one daughter, Betty Rozum of Mitchell, S.D.; three grandchildren; one great-grandson and one brother, Charley of Sibley.

She was preceded in death by her husband, three sisters and four brothers.


 

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