Clark Nichols, 94, an attorney and Edmond resident for nearly fifty years, died at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Atlanta, Georgia. For the last ten years, he had resided in assisted living facilities first in Edmond and then in Marietta, Georgia.
Born in Holdenville and raised in Eufaula, where his father, Clark Nichols, Sr., was a respected attorney and once President of the Oklahoma State Senate. He received his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. after attending the University of Missouri, Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University. After obtaining his law degree he practiced administrative law in Washington, D.C. for approximately five years and then returned to practice labor-management relations law in Oklahoma City and later Edmond.
Following service in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific as a Lieutenant in World War II from 1944 to 1946, he and his wife settled in the then small town of Edmond, thereby becoming one of the first regular commuters between there and Oklahoma City. Though largely in private practice he had also been a senior partner in the law firm of Withington, Shirk, Nichols and Work and was also general counsel for the Associated Industries of Oklahoma for many years. Through that organization he formed AIO Supervisory Training Services conducting supervisory training classes for his clients as well as many other companies. His law clients included Capital Steel & Iron, American Body and Trailer, the Contractors Association of Oklahoma, the Dolese Company, Unit Parts Company, Scrivener-Stevens Wholesale Grocers and numerous other companies.
Mr. Nichols was a devoted father and grandfather, an avid reader and gardener, and a tireless leader and church school teacher in his church. He was an ordained Elder and active leader in the First Presbyterian Church of Edmond and a member of Rotary.
Survived by his sister, Bettylu Holley of Norman, a son, J. Randall Nichols of Princeton, New Jersey, and a daughter, Mary Clark Denson of Marietta, Georgia, grandchildren, Matthew and Adam Nichols, Steven, Scott and Justin Smith, and great-grandson, Elliott Smith, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Predeceased in 1994 by his wife of 56 years, Maryetta Powell Nichols.
Funeral service: Lecture Hall of the First Presbyterian Church in Edmond on Tues., Feb. 27, 2007. A private family interment next to his wife at Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City will follow.
Born in Holdenville and raised in Eufaula, where his father, Clark Nichols, Sr., was a respected attorney and once President of the Oklahoma State Senate. He received his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. after attending the University of Missouri, Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University. After obtaining his law degree he practiced administrative law in Washington, D.C. for approximately five years and then returned to practice labor-management relations law in Oklahoma City and later Edmond.
Following service in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific as a Lieutenant in World War II from 1944 to 1946, he and his wife settled in the then small town of Edmond, thereby becoming one of the first regular commuters between there and Oklahoma City. Though largely in private practice he had also been a senior partner in the law firm of Withington, Shirk, Nichols and Work and was also general counsel for the Associated Industries of Oklahoma for many years. Through that organization he formed AIO Supervisory Training Services conducting supervisory training classes for his clients as well as many other companies. His law clients included Capital Steel & Iron, American Body and Trailer, the Contractors Association of Oklahoma, the Dolese Company, Unit Parts Company, Scrivener-Stevens Wholesale Grocers and numerous other companies.
Mr. Nichols was a devoted father and grandfather, an avid reader and gardener, and a tireless leader and church school teacher in his church. He was an ordained Elder and active leader in the First Presbyterian Church of Edmond and a member of Rotary.
Survived by his sister, Bettylu Holley of Norman, a son, J. Randall Nichols of Princeton, New Jersey, and a daughter, Mary Clark Denson of Marietta, Georgia, grandchildren, Matthew and Adam Nichols, Steven, Scott and Justin Smith, and great-grandson, Elliott Smith, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Predeceased in 1994 by his wife of 56 years, Maryetta Powell Nichols.
Funeral service: Lecture Hall of the First Presbyterian Church in Edmond on Tues., Feb. 27, 2007. A private family interment next to his wife at Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City will follow.
Clark Nichols, 94, an attorney and Edmond resident for nearly fifty years, died at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Atlanta, Georgia. For the last ten years, he had resided in assisted living facilities first in Edmond and then in Marietta, Georgia.
Born in Holdenville and raised in Eufaula, where his father, Clark Nichols, Sr., was a respected attorney and once President of the Oklahoma State Senate. He received his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. after attending the University of Missouri, Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University. After obtaining his law degree he practiced administrative law in Washington, D.C. for approximately five years and then returned to practice labor-management relations law in Oklahoma City and later Edmond.
Following service in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific as a Lieutenant in World War II from 1944 to 1946, he and his wife settled in the then small town of Edmond, thereby becoming one of the first regular commuters between there and Oklahoma City. Though largely in private practice he had also been a senior partner in the law firm of Withington, Shirk, Nichols and Work and was also general counsel for the Associated Industries of Oklahoma for many years. Through that organization he formed AIO Supervisory Training Services conducting supervisory training classes for his clients as well as many other companies. His law clients included Capital Steel & Iron, American Body and Trailer, the Contractors Association of Oklahoma, the Dolese Company, Unit Parts Company, Scrivener-Stevens Wholesale Grocers and numerous other companies.
Mr. Nichols was a devoted father and grandfather, an avid reader and gardener, and a tireless leader and church school teacher in his church. He was an ordained Elder and active leader in the First Presbyterian Church of Edmond and a member of Rotary.
Survived by his sister, Bettylu Holley of Norman, a son, J. Randall Nichols of Princeton, New Jersey, and a daughter, Mary Clark Denson of Marietta, Georgia, grandchildren, Matthew and Adam Nichols, Steven, Scott and Justin Smith, and great-grandson, Elliott Smith, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Predeceased in 1994 by his wife of 56 years, Maryetta Powell Nichols.
Funeral service: Lecture Hall of the First Presbyterian Church in Edmond on Tues., Feb. 27, 2007. A private family interment next to his wife at Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City will follow.
Born in Holdenville and raised in Eufaula, where his father, Clark Nichols, Sr., was a respected attorney and once President of the Oklahoma State Senate. He received his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. after attending the University of Missouri, Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University. After obtaining his law degree he practiced administrative law in Washington, D.C. for approximately five years and then returned to practice labor-management relations law in Oklahoma City and later Edmond.
Following service in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific as a Lieutenant in World War II from 1944 to 1946, he and his wife settled in the then small town of Edmond, thereby becoming one of the first regular commuters between there and Oklahoma City. Though largely in private practice he had also been a senior partner in the law firm of Withington, Shirk, Nichols and Work and was also general counsel for the Associated Industries of Oklahoma for many years. Through that organization he formed AIO Supervisory Training Services conducting supervisory training classes for his clients as well as many other companies. His law clients included Capital Steel & Iron, American Body and Trailer, the Contractors Association of Oklahoma, the Dolese Company, Unit Parts Company, Scrivener-Stevens Wholesale Grocers and numerous other companies.
Mr. Nichols was a devoted father and grandfather, an avid reader and gardener, and a tireless leader and church school teacher in his church. He was an ordained Elder and active leader in the First Presbyterian Church of Edmond and a member of Rotary.
Survived by his sister, Bettylu Holley of Norman, a son, J. Randall Nichols of Princeton, New Jersey, and a daughter, Mary Clark Denson of Marietta, Georgia, grandchildren, Matthew and Adam Nichols, Steven, Scott and Justin Smith, and great-grandson, Elliott Smith, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Predeceased in 1994 by his wife of 56 years, Maryetta Powell Nichols.
Funeral service: Lecture Hall of the First Presbyterian Church in Edmond on Tues., Feb. 27, 2007. A private family interment next to his wife at Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City will follow.
