Myrtle (Anderson) Nichols
MRS. SCOTT B. NICHOLS
WHITEHALL. Wis, (Special) — Mrs. Scott B. Nichols, 70, wife of the former publisher of the Whitehall Times, died Saturday at Lansing, Mich., after a short illness.
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Whitehall Methodist Church, the Rev. Charles W. Langdonofficiating. Burial will be in Lincoln Cemetery. Friends may call at Johnson Funeral Home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Nichols, the former Myrtle Anderson, was born April 20, 1886, the daughter of the late Judge and Mrs. H. A. Anderson of Whitehall. She was married to Scott Nichols Sept. 4, 1915, and they farmed in Washburn and Jackson counties before buying a partnership in the Whitehall paper in 1923. In 1931 they bought sole ownership from F. E. Beach and lived here until 1952 when they sold the business and moved to Lansing.
Survivors are: Her husband; four daughters, Mrs. Dean (Margaret) Brown, Royal Oak, Mich.; Miss Betty Nichols, Schenectady, N.Y; Mrs. Robert (Marwood) Mays, Media, Pa.; and Mrs. Val Adams (Edith) Schaff, New Orleans, La.; a son, Robert, Madison; six grandchildren: two sisters, Mrs. Herman L. Ekern, Madison, and Mrs. Gerald Anderson, Waukegan, Ill., and two brothers, George, Sarona, Wis., and William, Rockford, Ill.
(from the Monday, Oct. 15, 1956, La Crosse [Wis.] Tribune.)
WHITEHALL. Wis, (Special) — Mrs. Scott B. Nichols, 70, wife of the former publisher of the Whitehall Times, died Saturday at Lansing, Mich., after a short illness.
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Whitehall Methodist Church, the Rev. Charles W. Langdonofficiating. Burial will be in Lincoln Cemetery. Friends may call at Johnson Funeral Home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Nichols, the former Myrtle Anderson, was born April 20, 1886, the daughter of the late Judge and Mrs. H. A. Anderson of Whitehall. She was married to Scott Nichols Sept. 4, 1915, and they farmed in Washburn and Jackson counties before buying a partnership in the Whitehall paper in 1923. In 1931 they bought sole ownership from F. E. Beach and lived here until 1952 when they sold the business and moved to Lansing.
Survivors are: Her husband; four daughters, Mrs. Dean (Margaret) Brown, Royal Oak, Mich.; Miss Betty Nichols, Schenectady, N.Y; Mrs. Robert (Marwood) Mays, Media, Pa.; and Mrs. Val Adams (Edith) Schaff, New Orleans, La.; a son, Robert, Madison; six grandchildren: two sisters, Mrs. Herman L. Ekern, Madison, and Mrs. Gerald Anderson, Waukegan, Ill., and two brothers, George, Sarona, Wis., and William, Rockford, Ill.
(from the Monday, Oct. 15, 1956, La Crosse [Wis.] Tribune.)