Alexander S. NICHOLL

NICHOLL, WOLFE, SMITH, ROTH, ROSS, SLAIKEU

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/31/2006 at 00:00:54

Wright County Monitor
26 November 1953

Alexander (Alex) S. Nicholl, 77, who grew to manhood here, died Thursday night at a convalescent home in Eagle Grove. Funeral services were held Saturday morning at Bruces in Ft. Dodge; and burial was in the Greenfield Cemetery at Knierim. After leaving Goldfield, he went to Ft. Dodge where he was employed for several years by the Illinois Central railroad. He .was married to Mrs. June Julius Wolfe of Ft. Dodge. Later, Mrs. Nicholl moved to Omaha, where he worked as an expressman for the Illinois Central between Omaha and Sioux City. After several, years of railroading he retired and moved to a farm near Harris, Ia., in Osceola county. He farmed there with his brother, J. Harry Nicoll, until early in 1940. At that time he retired from farming and moved to Spirit Lake. Six years ago he moved to Eagle Grove to make his home. Mrs. Nicholl died in December of 1948. His parents, a brother, J. D. Nicholl, two sisters, Mrs. Martha Smith and Mrs. Lydia Slaikeu and a stepson, Ray Wolfe preceded Him in death. Surviving are a brother-in-law, Harley Julius of Ft. Dodge; a brother, J. Harry Nicoll of Sibley; and three sisters, Mrs. W. K. Roth of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. A. M. Ross of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Edna Smith of Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Nicoll was a member of the Spirit Lake Methodist church.