Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Nicholson, Clyde Parker December 3, 1993
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Virginian Pilot December 5, 1993

Funeral services for Clyde P. Nicholson will be held in Elmwood Cemetery on 
Monday, Dec. 6, 1993, at 11 a.m.
Mr. Nicholson died Friday at Virginia Beach General Hospital. He was 95. A 
native of Norfolk, Mr. Nicholson has been a resident of Virginia Beach since 
1937. He attended Norfolk Public Schools, and was a graduate of Staunton 
Military Academy and the Virginia Military Institute. For a number of years Mr. 
Nicholson was associated with the Virginia National Guard's old First Virginia 
Infantry Regiment, commanding its Norfolk units. Mr. Nicholson also served 
extensively in Europe during and following World War II. In 1943 he was named to 
a special technical staff with the U.S. Foreign Economic Administration to 
administer rehabilitation of the war damaged countries of Europe. In French 
North Africa he served with the provisional French Government at Algiers as 
technical advisor, and in 1945 headed a group of British and American 
Technicians in planning the economic and industrial rehabilitation of France.
In Paris he was appointed to the French National Railway and Inland Waterway 
Boards for development of a coordinated post-war transportation program in 
Europe. He subsequently served as technical advisor and administrator to the 
U.S. Ambassador in France when the war ended. He was recalled to Washington to 
administer programs which he had formulated in Europe, serving as the American 
representative on the French Liaison and Purchasing Commission Staff. He 
returned in 1946 to his home in Virginia Beach where he served as engineer for 
the City of Virginia Beach. In 1948 he was again appointed by the Department of 
State to successive economic missions in Austria, France and Germany to plan 
projects for defense rehabilitations and construction. During the years that 
followed he was actively engaged in the administration and management of 
European projects associated with the NATO defense structure.
During his residence in Heidelberg and Frankfurt, Germany, he and his wife, 
Gladys Alexander Nicholson of Portsmouth, initiated many projects for 
improvement of German-American cultural relations, highlighted by the 
development in Frankfurt, of St. Christophers Church, one of the ten American 
Episcopal Churches in Europe. Mr. Nicholson served as Senior Warden for the 
church parish from 1959 to 1961. He retired from active participation in 
Government Affairs in 1963 and returned to his home in Virginia Beach.
He was an active member of the Princess Anne Country Club, a past member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, American Railway Engineering Association, 
the Society of American Military Engineers and the Press and Union Clubs of 
Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Nicholson was the son of the late Frank L. Nicholson, 
one of the charter members of the Norfolk City Planning Commission. He was 
married to Gladys Alexander, of Portsmouth, Virginia, who survives him. Memorial 
contributions may be made to the Galilee Episcopal Church of Virginia Beach.


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