Dorothy Nichols

Female1 April 1924–30 December 2014

Brief Life History of Dorothy

When Dorothy Nichols was born on 1 April 1924, in Webster, Kentucky, United States, her father, O T Nichols, was 30 and her mother, Mary Lucille Martin, was 22. She died on 30 December 2014, in Boaz, Graves, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Sturgis, Union, Kentucky, United States.

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Marion Wardie "Bud" Berry
1925–2010
Dorothy Nichols
1924–2014

Sources (4)

  • Dorothy Mart Nichols, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Dorothy Nichols Berry, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Dorothy in entry for Marion W Or Bud Berry, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

1926 · Mammoth Cave is Discovered

Age 2

In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.

1927

Age 3

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

Age 24

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Nichol , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ); see also below.

Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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