Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Nichols, Elvia (Hixson) 1937 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net June 4, 2011, 11:53 am Portland Observer, 30 Dec 1937 A former resident of Portland, Mrs. Elvia Hixson Nichols, 65, died December 22 at Grand Rapids. Funeral services were held from the Creston funeral home in that city, Monday, December 27, with the Rev. M. A. Braund, of St. Paul Methodist church and the Rev. H. V. Wade, of the Plainfield Ave., M. E. church officiating. Burial was in Portland cemetery. Mrs. Nichols, the daughter of Almon and Viancie Hixson, was born in Portland, November 24, 1872. She was graduated from Portland High school in 1899. On September 17, 1903 she was married to Elmer Nichols, of Grand Rapids, who died in 1912. An adopted daughter, Marian Ruth, succumbed in 1921. Mrs. Peter Robinson, of Portland, is a niece of the deceased. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/n/nichols12706nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb