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                          OA Online Obituaries. 
                                      
                             February 18, 2000
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
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                         Medie Marie Lundy Nichols
                                      
   MIDLAND — Medie Marie Lundy Nichols passed from life to death at
   3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 15, 2000, at Tranquility Hospice Center
                              in Austell, Ga.
                                      
   Born Feb. 23, 1912, in Miller County, Ark., the last of seven children
   and the second daughter of Mabry Albert and Frances Tallulah Gillespie
     Lundy, she was educated in the public schools of Miller County and
                       boarding school in Jefferson.
                                      
     On July 4, 1929, she married her childhood sweetheart, Lake Vestal
     "Nick" Nichols on the Texas/Arkansas state line in Miller County.
                                      
     The family moved to Rodessa, Caddo Parish, La., in 1936 where they
    remained until 1944, at which time the family moved to Wake Village,
    Bowie County. The family moved to Sundown in 1950, to Denver City in
      1952, to Odessa in 1955 and Midland in 1960. She moved to Powder
       Springs, Ga., in 1998. Family, home and church were her world.
                                      
    She was predeceased by her parents, her only sister and all five of
               her brothers. Her husband died Aug. 19, 1990.
                                      
     Services are scheduled for Friday, Feb. 18, 2000, at 2 p.m. in the
   Ellis Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. James Aldridge of Northwestern
       Baptist Church officiating. Interment will follow at Resthaven
     Memorial Park, where she will rest beside her husband of 61 years.
                                      
    Survivors are her son, J. WayIon Nichols and wife, Leona, of Odessa;
    daughter, Norma LaNeIl Daniel and husband, James, of Powder Springs,
   Ga.; grandsons, Lyndon Bruce Daniel and wife, Dawna, of Decatur, Ga.,
    David Eugene Nichols and wife, Allene, of Arlington and Ramon Andrew
   Nichols of Arlington; granddaughters, Shelia Carol Wigley and husband,
    Gene, of Marietta and Sabrina Marie Christian and husband, Eric, of
      Kennesaw, Ga.; and great-grandchildren, Kristin Nicole WigIey of
       Marietta, Wesley Christian of Kennesaw and Maxwell Nichols of
                                 Arlington.
                                      
       Additionally, she is survived by nine nephews and six nieces.
                                      
   The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the
      Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 3389, Midland, TX 79760.
                                      
                 "Never forget those who cannot remember."
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