Obituary of Floyd E. Nichols, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by :Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
Micro-Film at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
August 19, 1992


Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.




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Floyd E. Nichols

Floyd E. Nichols, 81, of Alexandria and formerly of Jena, died at 12:15 p.m.
Monday, August 10, at St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria.

Services were held in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral home at 1`:00 a.m.
Wednesday, August 12 with Dr. Lee Weems officiating.

Burial followed in Woodland Memorial Park Cemetery of Jena under direction of
Hixson Brothers, Inc.

He was a native of Nacogdoches, Texas and a member and deacon of Emmanuel
Baptist Church. He transferred from Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City to
England Air Force Base in 1954 where he retired as aircraft maintenance
supervisor. He received the Carnegie Medal in 1955 for saving the lives of
three men at Chicot Lake near Ville Platte and in 1973 was named employee of
the year at England Air Force Base.

Survivors include his wife, Verda Smith Nichols of Alexandria; one daughter,
Jaunza Nichols Sanson of Spring, Texas; three sisters, Dessie Nichols Burnham
of Port Allen, Geneva Nichols Sigmon of Houston, Texas, and Julia Nichols
Jeter of Bossier City; one brother, Leland Nichols of Jena; and five
grandchildren.