Mary Belle Nichols
February 4, 1915 — June 8, 2013
Mary Belle (Box) Nichols
Mary Belle (Box) Nichols was the ninth (9th) and last child of Thomas and Belle (Dobbins) Box. She was born in Polk County, near Aldrich, Missouri on February 4, 1915 weighing thirteen (13) pounds at birth. She passed away June 8th, 2013 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor in Emporia, KS.
She attended King Elementary School and graduated from Aldrich High School in 1934. She attended the Eudora and Pleasant Ridge Baptist Churches and Sunday school.
At the age of thirteen (13) she made her confession to God and was baptized in a revival meeting at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church near Aldrich.
After graduating from high school, she spent several months in Kansas City, Missouri working and also taking care of her nephew Curtis Brannan. She returned home in Missouri to then move with her parents to Kansas, February 1st, 1935.
The Reverend Eugene Krammer of the Eureka Methodist Church married Mary Belle to Lawrence Nichols on March 15th, 1936 at the home of her parents near Tonovay.
They moved to the Glen Christy farm near Utopia, lived there for eight (8) years, then moved to their farm home near Hamilton on March 1st, 1944.
After moving to Hamilton, she joined the Hamilton Methodist church and attended Sunday school and church with her family. Mary Belle helped her husband with the MYF group of young people on Sunday evenings for some time.
Mary Belle’s one pleasure was working with her husband on the farm. She also enjoyed sewing for her four daughters.
Lawrence and Mary Belle celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary on March 16, 1986 at the Hamilton Methodist Church. They had almost seventy (70) years together when Lawrence passed away on November 28th, 2005.
Mary Belle’s hobbies have been her flowers, gardening, embroidery work, sewing, quilting, crocheting afghans for family, and her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Around 1980, she started writing poems. She has written 72 or more poems to date.
Mary Belle was very proud of her husband Lawrence and four daughters Carol, Doris, Barbara, and Shirley and their families.
She is survived by her three daughters: Doris Hanson of Kingman, Barbara Hind and husband Gary of Hobbs, New Mexico and Shirley Farmer and husband Paul of Wichita, 12 grandchildren and 20 great- grandchildren and 3 step-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence, a daughter, Carol Ann, her parents, three brothers: Roy, Ramey, and Otis, five sisters: Jewel, Pearl, Dona, Ruby, Dorothy, and Frances, son-in-law Daryl Hanson, a granddaughter: Paula Jean Brown and two great-granddaughters: Autumn Marie and Annalis Renee Brown.
Services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at Koup Family Funeral Home with Pastor Mark Demas and Pastor Curtis Brannan officiating. Interment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery in Eureka.
In lieu of flowers a memorials has been established in her name to the Hamilton Senior Citizen Building Fund and left in care of the funeral home at P.O. Box 595, Eureka, Kansas 67045.
Mary Belle (Box) Nichols was the ninth (9th) and last child of Thomas and Belle (Dobbins) Box. She was born in Polk County, near Aldrich, Missouri on February 4, 1915 weighing thirteen (13) pounds at birth. She passed away June 8th, 2013 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor in Emporia, KS.
She attended King Elementary School and graduated from Aldrich High School in 1934. She attended the Eudora and Pleasant Ridge Baptist Churches and Sunday school.
At the age of thirteen (13) she made her confession to God and was baptized in a revival meeting at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church near Aldrich.
After graduating from high school, she spent several months in Kansas City, Missouri working and also taking care of her nephew Curtis Brannan. She returned home in Missouri to then move with her parents to Kansas, February 1st, 1935.
The Reverend Eugene Krammer of the Eureka Methodist Church married Mary Belle to Lawrence Nichols on March 15th, 1936 at the home of her parents near Tonovay.
They moved to the Glen Christy farm near Utopia, lived there for eight (8) years, then moved to their farm home near Hamilton on March 1st, 1944.
After moving to Hamilton, she joined the Hamilton Methodist church and attended Sunday school and church with her family. Mary Belle helped her husband with the MYF group of young people on Sunday evenings for some time.
Mary Belle’s one pleasure was working with her husband on the farm. She also enjoyed sewing for her four daughters.
Lawrence and Mary Belle celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary on March 16, 1986 at the Hamilton Methodist Church. They had almost seventy (70) years together when Lawrence passed away on November 28th, 2005.
Mary Belle’s hobbies have been her flowers, gardening, embroidery work, sewing, quilting, crocheting afghans for family, and her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Around 1980, she started writing poems. She has written 72 or more poems to date.
Mary Belle was very proud of her husband Lawrence and four daughters Carol, Doris, Barbara, and Shirley and their families.
She is survived by her three daughters: Doris Hanson of Kingman, Barbara Hind and husband Gary of Hobbs, New Mexico and Shirley Farmer and husband Paul of Wichita, 12 grandchildren and 20 great- grandchildren and 3 step-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence, a daughter, Carol Ann, her parents, three brothers: Roy, Ramey, and Otis, five sisters: Jewel, Pearl, Dona, Ruby, Dorothy, and Frances, son-in-law Daryl Hanson, a granddaughter: Paula Jean Brown and two great-granddaughters: Autumn Marie and Annalis Renee Brown.
Services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at Koup Family Funeral Home with Pastor Mark Demas and Pastor Curtis Brannan officiating. Interment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery in Eureka.
In lieu of flowers a memorials has been established in her name to the Hamilton Senior Citizen Building Fund and left in care of the funeral home at P.O. Box 595, Eureka, Kansas 67045.
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