Coleman Chronicle & DV
October 15, 1996 - Page 6-A
Deaths and Funerals
Alta M. Nicholson, 78
Mrs. Alts M. Nicholson, age 78, of Brownwood died at 1 a.m. Sunday,
October 13, 1996 in Brownwood Regional Medical Center.
Services will be held at 10:30 this morning (Tuesday) at Heartland Funeral Home
Chapel with Alvis Fisher, minister of Brady Ave. Church of Christ officiating.
Burial was in Greenleaf Cemetery.
She was born March 25, 1918 in Santa Anna, Texas, the daughter of the late Alonzo
and Bessie Barnett. She had been a resident of Brownwood since 1940. She and
Cecil Lawrence Nicholson were married in 1940 at Santa Anna where she grew
up and attended school. She was a homemaker and a member of the Brady Ave.
Church of Christ.
Survivors include her husband, Cecil Nicholson of Brownwood; two daughters,
Priscilla Cantwell of Early and Glenda Walker of Brownwood;
two brothers, Dub Barnett of Coleman and Alonzo Barnett, Jr. of Dallas;
and two sisters, Lola Daylong of Austin and Mary Joyce Bishop of Brownwood;
five grandchildren, Joey Cantwell, Johnny Cantwell, Clay Beene, Kaye Lee Beene,
Tony Harold; and three great-grandchildren, Brandon Cantwell, Ami Cantwell
and Ashley Cantwell. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers,
Claud and Pete Barnett.
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