Mr. Richard Joseph Nicholson

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Date: Aug 17 2017 4:20 PM

Ward Wilson Memory Hill Funeral Home Cemetery and Crematory

2414 Hartford Highway

Dothan, Alabama 36305

334-792-4194

www.wardwilson.com

Mr. Richard Joseph Nicholson of Dothan passed away Wednesday, August 16, 2017. He was 74.

Funeral services will be held at 3 P.M. Saturday, August 19, 2017 at St. Columba Catholic Church with Father Gallagher officiating. Burial will follow in Memory Hill Cemetery with Ward Wilson Funeral Home directing.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 P.M. Friday, August 18, 2017. Flowers will be accepted.

Mr. Nicholson served in the US Army in Korea and then he worked at Farley Nuclear Plant for over 30 years. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, and loved to build and fly model planes. He was also the Georgia State Champion in Go Kart Racing. He loved his family and was married to Alice Gilley Nicholson for 49 years.

He is preceded in death by his parents William R. “Bill” Nicholson and Thelma June Rouleau Nicholson and great-grandchild Addison Allen.

Survivors include his wife Alice Nicholson of Dothan; daughters Monnette Creamer (Walt) of Dothan; Brenda Cutchen (Stanley) of Granbury, TX; sisters Carol Johnson of Midland, MI; Janice Nowicki (Gerald) of Alpena, MI; Julie Corwin (Robert J.) of Alpena, MI; brothers Lawrence “Larry” Nicholson (Marcia) of Freeland, MI; Charles Nicholson of Alpena, MI; grandchildren Tara Palmer (Justin), Kelli Carroll (Clint), Paul Cutchen, Alicia Cutchen, and great-grandchildren Nicholas Dawsey, Christian Traylor, Canaan Carroll, and Emerson Allen.

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