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Birth:          31 May 1928 Montpelier, Bear Lake Co., Id.
Death:          15 Feb 2012 Regency at the Park, Wash.
Burial:         Cloverdale Cemetery, Boise, Id.

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Glena "Lee" Nichols


 
Idaho Press-Tribune (Nampa, ID) — Sunday, February 26, 2012
Glena "Lee" Nichols, May 31, 1928 - February 15, 2012 College Place Resident, 
Glena "Lee" Nichols, passed away February 15, 2012. 

 There will be a memorial service in Boise, Idaho, at a later date. Internment will be in 
the Cloverdale Cemetery in Boise. Local arrangements have been entrusted to 
Mountain View-Colonial DeWitt, 1551 Dalles Military Road, Walla Walla, Washington. 

 Lee was born May 31, 1928, in Montpelier, Idaho, to Daniel Brigham and Frances 
Hellena Richards. The family moved several times until settling in Nampa, Idaho, 
where Lee attended school. Lee worked in the early years of World War II as a weld 
inspector at Gate City Steel. She met the love of her life and husband of almost 60 
years, Gerald "Gus" Nichols, in Nampa. They were married January 16, 1946, and 
moved to Meridian, Idaho. 

 She was a bookkeeper for Gus's blacksmith shop and ran a daycare from their home. 
They moved to Star, Idaho, where Gus ran a blacksmith shop and Lee worked as a 
Candler in an egg packing plant. Later they moved to Gooding, where they had a dairy 
farm and blacksmith shop. Lee was a good shot, an excellent cook, seamstress, 
gardener and farm hand. She loved to sew and was very handy. They bought houses 
and fixed them up and sold them with Lee doing the painting, carpeting and all kinds 
of remodeling. They retired in Garden Valley in the Idaho mountains, where they had 
spent many weekends camping, fishing and hunting. After living in different places in 
Idaho, Lee returned to College Place after Gus passed away in 2005. Lee was a 
cherished daughter, sister and aunt. She was a loving mother, grandmother and 
funloving friend. 

 Lee is survived by two daughters and sons-inlaw : Jerry and Cliff Farm of Hemet, 
California, and Sara and David Bassford of Bellevue, Washington; two sons and 
daughters-in-law : Cash and Cindy Nichols of College Place, Washington, and Jeff and 
Dawn Nichols of Waitsburg, Washington; grandchildren: Christopher and Stephanie 
Rumley, Phillip and Celia Rumley, Danielle and Charles Leyva, Chris Farm, Cassie 
Farm, Paul Farm, Jason Farm, Nathan Nichols, Cody Nichols, Jennifer Stryker, Sam 
Bassford and Katie Bassford, Ashley and Trevor Johnson, Jeremy and Lacy Nichols, 
and Jennifer Nichols; and two sisters-inlaw : Reva Richards and Donnie Griffiths. Lee 
loved her 13 great-grandchildren who brought her tremendous joy. She was preceded 
in death by her brother, Coey Richards, and her sister, Dian Frank. 

 Friends may write memories and sign the online guestbook at www.mountainview-
colonialdewitt .com 
Idaho Press-Tribune (Nampa, ID) — Sunday, February 26, 2012 

Parents
RICHARDS Daniel Brigham ()
HARDWICK Frances Helena ()

Siblings
RICHARDS Glena Lee (31 May 1928 - 15 Feb 2012)

Marriage To NICHOLS Gerald Ray ("Gus") (5 Aug 1925 - 27 May 2005)
    m. 16 Jan 1946 

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Parents
NICHOLS Ray Harold (26 Jan 1890 - 19 Nov 1950)
HAMILTON Hattie L. (1890 - 23 Jan 1958)

Children by NICHOLS Gerald Ray ("Gus") 5 Aug 1925 - 27 May 2005
NICHOLS Jerry L. (Geraldine?) ()
NICHOLS Cash C. ()
NICHOLS Sara R. ()
NICHOLS Jeff J. ()

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