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Notes for Erickson Snowden NICHOLS
Charlotte Observer, The (NC) - Thursday, November 23, 2000
Deceased Name: Colonel Erickson Snowden Nichols
95, died on Wednesday, November 22, 2000 at the Stewart Health Center, The Cypress.
Colonel Nichols, known as "Nick," was a native of Rye, New York, the son of Erickson Norman Nichols and Elizabeth Bowne Nichols. He was a graduate of Princeton University, Class of 1927.
He was commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the Field Artillery Reserve, later completed flight training at Kelly Field in Texas, and served in the regular Army Air Corps in New York, and was stationed at Mitchell Field, Long Island. It was there that he was inducted into QB's (Quiet Birdmen), an organization of flyers started by Lindbergh. His sponsor was Admiral Richard Byrd.
In 1938 he met Madeline Hechenbleikner of Charlotte, at an air show in Dayton, Ohio. They were married for 45 years until her death in 1982.
At the outbreak of World War II, he was 2nd in command of Clark Field in Manila, the Philippines. He served in the South Pacific commanding a bomber squadron and was on General MacArthur's staff in Australia.
Following the war, Colonel Nichols was in command of the New York Air National Guard, 52nd Flight Wing. Later he was stationed in South America at Buenos Aires, Bogota, Ecuador, and Havana, Cuba. He retired after 40 years of commissioned service.
Since the mid 1960's he has lived in Charlotte and was a member of Myers Park Baptist Church, and an honorary member of Charlotte Country Club.
In 1986 he married Jane Ellen Norman, who survives him, and they spent their summers in Linville, North Carolina at Grandfather Golf and Country Club.
Other survivors are nephews, Norman C. Nichols of Atlanta, GA and Chester B. Nichols B. Nichols of Tacoma, WA and well as stepsons, James T. Norman, Thomas E. Norman, David T. Norman and Richard C. Norman. Col. Nichols is also survived by his brother-in-law, Dr. Herbert Hechenbleikner and his family, of Charlotte.
A memorial service for Col. Nichols will be held at 11:30 AM on Friday, November 24, 2000 at Myers Park Baptist Church, with The Reverend Dr. Stephen Shoemaker and The Reverend Dr. Eugene Owens officiating. The family will receive friends following the service in the foyer of Heaton Hall, directly behind the sanctuary. A private burial will be held at Belmont Abbey Cemetery where his first wife was interred.
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