Letha O. (Harris) NICHOLS

NICHOLS, HARRIS, FOSTER, THOMAS, JACKSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/7/2005 at 16:11:31

Letha O. Nichols, 80, passed away on Thursday, October 13, 2005, at her home in Goldfield.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, October 15, at 2:30 p.m., at the Abundant Life Chapel in Dows. She was laid to rest at the Mount Hope Cemetery following the services.

Letha O. Harris, was born on February 8, 1925 in Stratford, the daughter of Ernest and Olivia (Foster) Harris. She graduated from the Popejoy High School in 1943. She was united in marriage to Carmon Hershel Nichols on August 19, 1944, in Eagle Grove. Throughout her life time, she had been employed at the turkey plant in Ellsworth, Boyt Manufacturing in Iowa Falls, and Asgrow Seed in Clarion. Letha, her husband and children moved several times in Iowa and Missouri during her married life and settled in Dows in 1972. Letha moved to Goldfield in 2003. She spent her spare time embroidering, cooking, baking, reading and keeping house.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Carmon "Slim" Nichols; and one son, Arnold Eugene Nichols. She is survived by five children, Burl Wayne Nichols and wife, Roxie of Kahoka, Missouri, Sandra Sue Thomas of Eagle Grove, Kathi Franklin and husband, Roger of Norman, Oklahoma, Russell Carmon Nichols and wife, Brenda of Eldora and Pattie Nichols of Goldfield; one sister, Nadine Jackson of Dows; nine grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.

October 20, 2005
Wright County Monitor - Clarion, Iowa