PHILL NICHELL, FUHS '56

Here is an email sent to Florence Owens Satchell, Class of '56 Pow Wow rep:
Flo,
This is Karen Nickell, wife of Phillip and felt I should let you know that Phill died July 14, 2010 at 12:26 AM at the Hospice Center in Columbus, IN after a dreadful bout of Pancreatic Cancer we found out about in Feb of this year. He died peacefully and calmly as he lived. I'm going to write the Obituary out as it was printed in our local paper here in Vevay, IN for you and your classmates. He has wanted to make it to a Pow Wow for years, but it just never worked out for us.

Phillip Paul (PP) Nickell 71, of Vevay, IN formerly of Muncie, IN passed away at 12:26 a.m. Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 at Hospice Center of SouthCentral Indiana in Columbus.
He was born in Muncie, IN September 29th, 1938 the son of Frank Nickell and Glenna D Nickell Hopkins. He was raised in Muncie and Fullerton, California. He was a 1956 graduate of Fullerton Union High School and attended one year of college at Cal Poly Tech in San Luis Obispo, California. He was a police officer in Santa Ana , CA. a Produce Mgr. while in California. While in California he was united in marriage to Barbara Gail Trexler in November of 1960. Unto this union two sons and one daughter arrived to bless their home. His family moved back to Muncie, IN in 1965. He worked as a Transformer Builder and Quality Control Inspector for Westinghouse/ABB from 1965-1998 when he retired for a short time, before taking several part time jobs as Battery deliverer to Used Car lots. He worked at ELSA in Elwood, IN from 2002-2004.
He was united in marriage to Karen Comer Pegg on August 31st, 1990, in Gaston, IN. They moved to Daleville, IN in 1991 and moved to Vevay, IN in 2002. He worked for Thomas Conroy at Spiral-Fab as a delivery driver from 2008 to Feb. of 2010 after discovering he had cancer and could no longer drive.Hw was a member of Friends Memorial Church and while in California attended East Whittier Friends Meeting. He will be remembered for his love of family and friends, HO model trains, and fishing. His grandchildren were his life when they started arriving and up to the day he died.
Survivors include his wife Karen Nickell of Vevay, his sons, David Nickell and wife Susan of Muncie and Jonathan Nickell and wife Kelly of Indiananpolis: his daughter Elizabeth Neal of Houston, TX: his stepmother Kathryn Nickell of Coatesville, IN : his stepson, Ryan Pegg of Daleville, IN, his stepdaughters, Bonnie Pegg of Vevay and Kristen Leigh-Anne Kendall husband Gary of Vevay; his grandchildren Samuel, Caroline, Jessica, Ellen, stepgrandchildren Nicole, Bryce, Nathaniel, Riley, JR and Connor, his step great grandson Alexander (Xander); his brother Ted Nickell wife Kathy,
of Amity, OR his half sister Nikki Valorani husband Jerry Valorani of Coatesville, IN; his sister-in-law Trish Sweat and husband Jerome of Saulsbury, TN four neices and three nephews.
He was preceded in deathby his mother and stepfarther, Glenna D (Baldwin Nickell) Hopkins and Ron Hopkins; his father, Frank Nickell; and his stepson Rocky Pegg.
Funeral services will be conducted by Reverend Mike Jones at 2:PM Sunday, July 18th, at, Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home in Vevay. Friends may call from 11:00 a.m. until service time Sunday. Memorial contributions may be made to the Indiana Juvenile Diabetes Foundation or the Switzerland County Chapter of the American Cancer Society. Online condolences may be sent to the family via the funeral home's website at www.haskellandmorrison.com