Eva Wynona Nicholls
News Examiner, Thursday, 7 April 1960, page 1
OVID WOMAN
Mrs. Eva Wyona Johnson Nicholls, 37, of Ovid died at 1 pm Monday
in the Bear Lake Memorial Hospital of a lingering illness. The daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Willard Johnson of Ovid, she was born February 4, 1923 at Ovid.
She was married to Charles C Nicholls, June 4, 1941 in the LDS Temple, Salt Lake City. She was a graduate of Bear Lake Stake Seminary and Fielding High School. An active member of the LDS Church, she had served as Primary president, and was a speech and drama director of YWMIA. At the time of her death she was secretary ofthe Ovid Ward Relief Society. She also served as a 4-H Club leader.
Besides her husband and parents, she is survived by one son, Fay and two daughters, Mary Ann and Wendy Nicholls. Also surviving are one sister, Ms. William E (Evelyn) Swartz of Salt Lake City and two brothers, Ray D Johnson of Ovid and Gene Johnson, US Navy, with the Atlantic Fleet.
Funeral services were held at 1 pm today, Thursday, in the Ovid LDS Ward Chapel. Matthews Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
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Bear Lake Biographies 1863-1950 Volume 2, page 685
Submitted by Evelyn Johnson Schwartz
Wyona was born Feb 4, 1923 in Ovid, Idaho in a house somewhat north and west of the present Paul Johnson home. We called that location out in the field because Grandpa George farmed the fields surrounding the house. Mother said that dad had to go in a sleigh to get the doctor and it was so cold that the water in the bucket of drinking water froze solid.
Mom and dad and LaVern and Wyona moved to Paris and shared a home with the Dewey Johnson family. My sister and their oldest daughter Donna were playmates. Wyona was very artistic which she demonstrated at an early age when she used barn paint to paint the grass red. We moved back to Ovid in 1930 and Wyona attended grade school in Ovid and Fielding High School in Paris. During those years Charles Nicholls came to live with his father Joe Nicholls and he also attended Fielding High School. They dated and on June 4,1941 they were married in the Salt Lake Temple. Their son, Fay was born the following April. they lived at what was then the Arthur Peterson home, a little south of Wyona's childhood home.
Later they moved to a home that was located just east of the curve on Highway 89. While there, Charles was inducted into the Army. Mary Ann and Wendy were born after Charles was released. Wyona was a fine seamstress and made most of her own clothes and taught 4-H before she was married. She did beautiful embroidery work and taught herself to crochet. Wyona loved music and as a young girl learned to play the steel guitar. After she was married she played the piano.
In the fall of 1959 my sister became seriously ill with a brain tumor. She underwent surgery twice but passed away on April 23, 1960 at the age of 37.