Genealogy - Nichols

Hazel and Amasa (Nick) Nichols are my great grandparents. I never met Grandpa Nick since he "went home or passed over" two years before I was born.

On the other hand, my grandma Nichols (Hazel) was in my life for 21 years; from the time I was nine months old until my first child, Tess, was nine months old. Since she lived next door to me, I was able to visit every day after school - we'd play cards - rummy or skipbo. I made many fruit pies, and snapped many green beans for canning during the summers.

Hazel Matilda STEVENSON was born on 8 Mar. 1904 in Colorado; died on 16 Aug. 1992 in Onalaska, Washington. She married Amasa Oscar Nichols on 20 Apr. 1922 in Colorado.

1. Marie Edith NICHOLS (b. 1923; m. James Westley PARNELL on 27 Jun. 1943 in Onalaska, WA on the Nichols Family Farm.)
2. Clyde Edgar NICHOLS (b. 1925)
3. Pearl Evelyn NICHOLS (b. 1927; m. Charles Fred KIRKPATRICK on 28 Sep. 1946)
4. Lillian Irene NICHOLS (b. 1929; m. Clyde CARTER on 18 Dec. 1948)
5. Oscar Lewis NICHOLS (b. 1931; d. 2010)
6. [Twins] Flora Jean NICHOLS (b. 1932; m. Harvey Elmer GUENTHER on 21 Nov. 1953)
7. [Twins] Laura Dean NICHOLS (b. 1932; m. Albert ERICKSON on 28 Mar. 1953)
8. George Wallace NICHOLS (b. 1934)
9. Melvin Charles NICHOLS (b. 1936)
10. Pleaides Ernest NICHOLS (b. 1939)

[Pictured: Amasa (Nick) & Hazel Nichols]

Headed West in a Home-Made Motor-Home

1935 Motor-Home

This has to be one of the first motor-homes.Eight kids plus mother and father all climbed in this old truck with a tent-like cover on the flat bed for the motor-home part. It was summertime, and we were going to California from Craig, Colorado. [Picture below was taken when they left Colorado for Washington.]

The four of us older kids would climb on the top bunk in the back and look through a window hole, above the cab of the truck. The younger four kids were riding up front with mom and dad in the truck. At night, we would all sleep in the two bunk beds in the tent part of the truck.

In the back there was also my mom’s Maytag Washing Machine, cured bacon and ham, lard, dishes and clothes. We broke down in California and had to wait for a week at a park while the truck was fixed. Then we were on our way to Washington. My folks bought a ranch on Jorgenson Road from Shirley Edwards.

Memories of Marie Nichols Parnell

1957 Mrs. Lewis County

When my Grandma Marie was 34 years old, she entered the Mrs. Lewis County contest after encouragement from her two sons (one is my dad) and won the title. My dad, Carl, (age 8) and his brother, Cary (age 10), told their mom that she can bake a good cake so she should enter. Read more.