CLOVERDALE, June 25.-Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff Valentine V. "Tex" Nickell, suffered a fatal heart attack Monday while helping the owners of a ranch east of Cloverdale round up a runaway Brahma bull.
He died in an ambulance en route to a hospital.
Nickell, 63, was the resident deputy sheriff in Cloverdale for the last six years and had been a law enforcement officer for 34 years. He suffered a previous heart attack in 1960.
Surviving are his wife, Mollie, and two married daughters.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at Fred Young and Company Mortuary in Cloverdale.
Published in The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) - Wednesday, June 26, 1963.
CLOVERDALE, June 25.-Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff Valentine V. "Tex" Nickell, suffered a fatal heart attack Monday while helping the owners of a ranch east of Cloverdale round up a runaway Brahma bull.
He died in an ambulance en route to a hospital.
Nickell, 63, was the resident deputy sheriff in Cloverdale for the last six years and had been a law enforcement officer for 34 years. He suffered a previous heart attack in 1960.
Surviving are his wife, Mollie, and two married daughters.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at Fred Young and Company Mortuary in Cloverdale.
Published in The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) - Wednesday, June 26, 1963.
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Edna Lee Nickell Christian
1886–1969
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Rosa Gertrude Nickell Anderson
1888–1949
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Annie Bell Nickell Pennington
1890–1967
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Frances Ruth "Fannie" Nickell Williams
1892–1970
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Dink Elsie Nickell Ballenger
1895–1967
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Richard Clark Nickell
1902–1983
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Lola Beatrice Nickell Murray
1905–1972
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Alonzo Benjamin "Red" Nickell
1907–1964
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