Obituaries:  Alice Wade Nye, Sabine Parish       N-000
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 20, 1983
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Alice Wade Nye

  Funeral services for Alice Wade Nye of Missouri City, Tex., were
held at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church of Many, on
Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 2 p.m. Father Gustave Bergeron, pastor,
officiated. Burial followed in the Zion Hill Cemetery at Negreet,
with full military services conducted at the graveside.
Arrangements were under the direction of the Warren Meadows
Funeral Home.

  Serving as honorary pallbearers were George Autry, Speight
Caldwell, Lee Sibley, Harold Armour, Glen Lilly, Levo Branam, and
E. L. Edwards Jr.

  Mrs. Nye, a native of Negreet, died on Sunday, October 16, at 8
p.m., in All Saints Hospital, Ft. Worth, Texas, following a
lengthy illness. She was 61.

  Born on June 24, 1922, in Negreet, to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wade,
she was one of eight girls. She graduated from Negreet High
School in 1939, and continued her education at Shreveport Charity
Hospital in the School of Nursing. She became a registered nurse
in 1943. Following graduation, she enlisted in the United States
Army, and was a member of the Army Nurses Corps. She was a First
Lieutenant, and served in the Normandy Campaign, and in Northern
France during World War II. She was a member of the 127th General
Hospital Unit in Northern France, and was decorated for bravery
while stationed there.

  Following the war, she returned to Houston, and entered the
field of surgical and medical nursing.

  On July 12, 1946, she married Miles Nye of Houston. He died in
1977.

  In the 1950's, she became involved with the care of open heart
surgery, and cardiovascular patients. By early 1969, Mrs. Nye
received a patent on a commode hat, a plastic potty used in
hospital to collect stool and urine specimens. She formed Nyco
Co., became it's first president (an office she held until her
death), and ran the business.

  Nicknamed "Sarge" by her patients, Mrs. Nye was a courageous and
tough nurse. She loved her patients, and in return, they loved
her. In her spare time, she enjoyed music, painting, cooking, and
entertaining.

  As a registered nurse in the nation's major medical center of
Houston, she also found time to be active in the Catholic
Daughters of St. Theresa's Church in Sugarland, Tex., and the
Zonto International Organization of Fredricksburg, Tex.

  Survivors include her daughter, Mrs. Libby Woodard of Austin,
Tex.; a son, Miles Nye, Jr., of Houston; four grandsons,
Christopher Nye, Justin Nye, Michael Woodard, and David Woodard;
one granddaughter, Allison Woodard; six sisters, Mrs. Mable
McKinney of Manchester, Mo., Mrs. Jessie McDaniel of DeRidder,
Mrs. Tina Paul of Lake Charles, Mrs. Toinette Cappel of Kinder,
Mrs. Dorothy Masinter of New Orleans, and Mrs. Mary Ruth Harper
of Mandeville. Another sister, Marie Wade of Negreet pre-deceased
Mrs. Nye.