Miss Bessie Camile Nison, 58, chief operator for the local Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. for 35 years, passed away of cancer in the Shackelford County Memorial Hospital. She had been in declining health several months, and was confined to the hospital two weeks.
Funeral was held at the First Baptist Church and burial was in the family plot in the Albany Cemetery.
The daughter of Adeline and Joseph Nixon, pioneer Shackelford County settlers, she was born November 22, 1893, at Albany and had lived here all her life.
Her parents moved to Albany in 1875, the quarter section of land just southeast of town being patented to Joseph Nixon. November 7, 1881, by the State of Texas. Mr. Nixon had a contract with the government to furnish buffalo meat for the soldiers at Fort Griffin. He helped build the railroad to Albany and as a rock mason, helped in the building of the court house and other rock buildings of the city.
The Nixons lived in a house on Hubbard creek until 1908, when they moved into the house built by George Simpson on the Nixon land.
Miss Nixon was a graduate of Albany high school. She was a clerk in the J.H. Friedly variety store several months before going to work for Southwestern Bell in 1912, where she continued to work until two weeks before here death. She had been chief operator for more than 35 years, and was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
She united with the Christian Church at the age of 14 and served as secretary of the Sunday school for several years.
Miss Nixon's hobby was reading and she was a member of four book clubs. She was patient, cheerful, and never complained. She did not criticize, and was always agreeable to work with.
Albany News,
August 14, 1962, pg 1
Funeral was held at the First Baptist Church and burial was in the family plot in the Albany Cemetery.
The daughter of Adeline and Joseph Nixon, pioneer Shackelford County settlers, she was born November 22, 1893, at Albany and had lived here all her life.
Her parents moved to Albany in 1875, the quarter section of land just southeast of town being patented to Joseph Nixon. November 7, 1881, by the State of Texas. Mr. Nixon had a contract with the government to furnish buffalo meat for the soldiers at Fort Griffin. He helped build the railroad to Albany and as a rock mason, helped in the building of the court house and other rock buildings of the city.
The Nixons lived in a house on Hubbard creek until 1908, when they moved into the house built by George Simpson on the Nixon land.
Miss Nixon was a graduate of Albany high school. She was a clerk in the J.H. Friedly variety store several months before going to work for Southwestern Bell in 1912, where she continued to work until two weeks before here death. She had been chief operator for more than 35 years, and was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
She united with the Christian Church at the age of 14 and served as secretary of the Sunday school for several years.
Miss Nixon's hobby was reading and she was a member of four book clubs. She was patient, cheerful, and never complained. She did not criticize, and was always agreeable to work with.
Albany News,
August 14, 1962, pg 1
Miss Bessie Camile Nison, 58, chief operator for the local Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. for 35 years, passed away of cancer in the Shackelford County Memorial Hospital. She had been in declining health several months, and was confined to the hospital two weeks.
Funeral was held at the First Baptist Church and burial was in the family plot in the Albany Cemetery.
The daughter of Adeline and Joseph Nixon, pioneer Shackelford County settlers, she was born November 22, 1893, at Albany and had lived here all her life.
Her parents moved to Albany in 1875, the quarter section of land just southeast of town being patented to Joseph Nixon. November 7, 1881, by the State of Texas. Mr. Nixon had a contract with the government to furnish buffalo meat for the soldiers at Fort Griffin. He helped build the railroad to Albany and as a rock mason, helped in the building of the court house and other rock buildings of the city.
The Nixons lived in a house on Hubbard creek until 1908, when they moved into the house built by George Simpson on the Nixon land.
Miss Nixon was a graduate of Albany high school. She was a clerk in the J.H. Friedly variety store several months before going to work for Southwestern Bell in 1912, where she continued to work until two weeks before here death. She had been chief operator for more than 35 years, and was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
She united with the Christian Church at the age of 14 and served as secretary of the Sunday school for several years.
Miss Nixon's hobby was reading and she was a member of four book clubs. She was patient, cheerful, and never complained. She did not criticize, and was always agreeable to work with.
Albany News,
August 14, 1962, pg 1
Funeral was held at the First Baptist Church and burial was in the family plot in the Albany Cemetery.
The daughter of Adeline and Joseph Nixon, pioneer Shackelford County settlers, she was born November 22, 1893, at Albany and had lived here all her life.
Her parents moved to Albany in 1875, the quarter section of land just southeast of town being patented to Joseph Nixon. November 7, 1881, by the State of Texas. Mr. Nixon had a contract with the government to furnish buffalo meat for the soldiers at Fort Griffin. He helped build the railroad to Albany and as a rock mason, helped in the building of the court house and other rock buildings of the city.
The Nixons lived in a house on Hubbard creek until 1908, when they moved into the house built by George Simpson on the Nixon land.
Miss Nixon was a graduate of Albany high school. She was a clerk in the J.H. Friedly variety store several months before going to work for Southwestern Bell in 1912, where she continued to work until two weeks before here death. She had been chief operator for more than 35 years, and was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
She united with the Christian Church at the age of 14 and served as secretary of the Sunday school for several years.
Miss Nixon's hobby was reading and she was a member of four book clubs. She was patient, cheerful, and never complained. She did not criticize, and was always agreeable to work with.
Albany News,
August 14, 1962, pg 1
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