Abstract from the Topeka Daily Capital 19 mar 1980:
Mrs. Pauline Myers Nixon died Monday in a Topeka nursing home where she had lived since June 28, 1977.
She was born near Rushville, Indiana, the daughter of Jonathan and Nancy Ewing Applegate. She moved to Yorktown, Indiana when she was five, and graduated from high school there. She practiced cosmetology for 3 years in Lafayette, Indiana efore moving to Topeka in 1917. She first married Ben F. Myers who preceded her in death. In April 1929 she married Ira Marvin Nixon in Topeka. He died in 1955.
Mrs. Nixon was a real estate broker and operated her own agency in Topeka for about 10 years. Before that she owned and operated a beauty salon on Kansas Ave. from 1919 to 1937. She was secretary to the Kansas State Board of Cosmetology from 1937 to 1940. She helped improve cosmetology standards in Kansas and worked with a Kansas legislative committee 7 years before enactment of the present statute governing the practice of cosmetology. Mrs. Nixon helped organize the Topeka Cosmetologist Association. She was an early president of the Topeka unit and spent several years as secretary. She also was a member of National Hairdressers Association and was a Topeka delegate for 8 or 10 national conventions. While secretary of the Kansas State Board of Cosmetologists, she was elected president of the National Council of State Boards of Cosmetologists at the second annual meeting of the organization in San Francisco, and held that office until she retired from the Kansas Board.
Mrs. Nixon was a founder of the Soroptomist Club of Topeka and the club's charter president. She was also a member of Kansas Author's Club, District 1, and was an honorary member of each organization at the time of her death. She was a member of Central Congregational Church where she was a deaconess 3 years and served 1 year as chairman of the board of deacons. She was a member of Group 11, past president of Keen Agers, Charter member of Beulah Chapter No. 34 of Order of Eastern Star, and charter president from 1968 to 1970 of American Association of Retired Persons in Topeka.
Survivors include a grandson, Prof. Dennis Craig Myers, Toledo, Ohio and two grandchildren. Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Mrs. Pauline Myers Nixon died Monday in a Topeka nursing home where she had lived since June 28, 1977.
She was born near Rushville, Indiana, the daughter of Jonathan and Nancy Ewing Applegate. She moved to Yorktown, Indiana when she was five, and graduated from high school there. She practiced cosmetology for 3 years in Lafayette, Indiana efore moving to Topeka in 1917. She first married Ben F. Myers who preceded her in death. In April 1929 she married Ira Marvin Nixon in Topeka. He died in 1955.
Mrs. Nixon was a real estate broker and operated her own agency in Topeka for about 10 years. Before that she owned and operated a beauty salon on Kansas Ave. from 1919 to 1937. She was secretary to the Kansas State Board of Cosmetology from 1937 to 1940. She helped improve cosmetology standards in Kansas and worked with a Kansas legislative committee 7 years before enactment of the present statute governing the practice of cosmetology. Mrs. Nixon helped organize the Topeka Cosmetologist Association. She was an early president of the Topeka unit and spent several years as secretary. She also was a member of National Hairdressers Association and was a Topeka delegate for 8 or 10 national conventions. While secretary of the Kansas State Board of Cosmetologists, she was elected president of the National Council of State Boards of Cosmetologists at the second annual meeting of the organization in San Francisco, and held that office until she retired from the Kansas Board.
Mrs. Nixon was a founder of the Soroptomist Club of Topeka and the club's charter president. She was also a member of Kansas Author's Club, District 1, and was an honorary member of each organization at the time of her death. She was a member of Central Congregational Church where she was a deaconess 3 years and served 1 year as chairman of the board of deacons. She was a member of Group 11, past president of Keen Agers, Charter member of Beulah Chapter No. 34 of Order of Eastern Star, and charter president from 1968 to 1970 of American Association of Retired Persons in Topeka.
Survivors include a grandson, Prof. Dennis Craig Myers, Toledo, Ohio and two grandchildren. Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Abstract from the Topeka Daily Capital 19 mar 1980:
Mrs. Pauline Myers Nixon died Monday in a Topeka nursing home where she had lived since June 28, 1977.
She was born near Rushville, Indiana, the daughter of Jonathan and Nancy Ewing Applegate. She moved to Yorktown, Indiana when she was five, and graduated from high school there. She practiced cosmetology for 3 years in Lafayette, Indiana efore moving to Topeka in 1917. She first married Ben F. Myers who preceded her in death. In April 1929 she married Ira Marvin Nixon in Topeka. He died in 1955.
Mrs. Nixon was a real estate broker and operated her own agency in Topeka for about 10 years. Before that she owned and operated a beauty salon on Kansas Ave. from 1919 to 1937. She was secretary to the Kansas State Board of Cosmetology from 1937 to 1940. She helped improve cosmetology standards in Kansas and worked with a Kansas legislative committee 7 years before enactment of the present statute governing the practice of cosmetology. Mrs. Nixon helped organize the Topeka Cosmetologist Association. She was an early president of the Topeka unit and spent several years as secretary. She also was a member of National Hairdressers Association and was a Topeka delegate for 8 or 10 national conventions. While secretary of the Kansas State Board of Cosmetologists, she was elected president of the National Council of State Boards of Cosmetologists at the second annual meeting of the organization in San Francisco, and held that office until she retired from the Kansas Board.
Mrs. Nixon was a founder of the Soroptomist Club of Topeka and the club's charter president. She was also a member of Kansas Author's Club, District 1, and was an honorary member of each organization at the time of her death. She was a member of Central Congregational Church where she was a deaconess 3 years and served 1 year as chairman of the board of deacons. She was a member of Group 11, past president of Keen Agers, Charter member of Beulah Chapter No. 34 of Order of Eastern Star, and charter president from 1968 to 1970 of American Association of Retired Persons in Topeka.
Survivors include a grandson, Prof. Dennis Craig Myers, Toledo, Ohio and two grandchildren. Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Mrs. Pauline Myers Nixon died Monday in a Topeka nursing home where she had lived since June 28, 1977.
She was born near Rushville, Indiana, the daughter of Jonathan and Nancy Ewing Applegate. She moved to Yorktown, Indiana when she was five, and graduated from high school there. She practiced cosmetology for 3 years in Lafayette, Indiana efore moving to Topeka in 1917. She first married Ben F. Myers who preceded her in death. In April 1929 she married Ira Marvin Nixon in Topeka. He died in 1955.
Mrs. Nixon was a real estate broker and operated her own agency in Topeka for about 10 years. Before that she owned and operated a beauty salon on Kansas Ave. from 1919 to 1937. She was secretary to the Kansas State Board of Cosmetology from 1937 to 1940. She helped improve cosmetology standards in Kansas and worked with a Kansas legislative committee 7 years before enactment of the present statute governing the practice of cosmetology. Mrs. Nixon helped organize the Topeka Cosmetologist Association. She was an early president of the Topeka unit and spent several years as secretary. She also was a member of National Hairdressers Association and was a Topeka delegate for 8 or 10 national conventions. While secretary of the Kansas State Board of Cosmetologists, she was elected president of the National Council of State Boards of Cosmetologists at the second annual meeting of the organization in San Francisco, and held that office until she retired from the Kansas Board.
Mrs. Nixon was a founder of the Soroptomist Club of Topeka and the club's charter president. She was also a member of Kansas Author's Club, District 1, and was an honorary member of each organization at the time of her death. She was a member of Central Congregational Church where she was a deaconess 3 years and served 1 year as chairman of the board of deacons. She was a member of Group 11, past president of Keen Agers, Charter member of Beulah Chapter No. 34 of Order of Eastern Star, and charter president from 1968 to 1970 of American Association of Retired Persons in Topeka.
Survivors include a grandson, Prof. Dennis Craig Myers, Toledo, Ohio and two grandchildren. Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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