July 15, 1938 - October 15, 2024
Sue L. Nichols, age 86, resident of Ringgold, Georgia for the past 53 years, passed away on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at Erlanger East Medical Center.
Mrs. Nichols, daughter of the late Oben Hale Ledford and Georgia Lucille Crisp Ledford, was born July 15, 1938 in Decatur, Tennessee. She was a longtime member of Bayside Baptist Church where she served in many capacities to include both teaching Sunday School and Children’s Church. Mrs. Nichols also worked many years with her husband in Christ Chapel Missions. During her working career, she worked at Lawrence-Doster Lincoln-Mercury and also Provident Insurance until her retirement. Mrs. Nichols loved gardening and traveling to the mountains. She looked forward to taking church retreat trips and traveling different places with her sisters. While at home, Mrs. Nichols enjoyed listening to Southern Gospel Music, sewing/crocheting, and cooking meals for family and friends. Most of all, she looked forward to spending quality time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family remembers her as a lady who always helped others.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Oran Nichols, Jr., and two brothers, Sam Ledford and Carl “Bud” Ledford.
Mrs. Nichols is survived by one daughter, Tammie Nichols (Chuck) Jeffery; two sons, Bruce (Connie) Nichols and Ray Nichols; two sisters, Diane Lankford and Doris (Raymond) Maynor; four grandchildren, Hayden Nichols, Shelby Nichols, Tabitha (Austin) Ellis, and Chase (Madison) Jeffery; four great-grandchildren, Kyler Coulter, Knox Ellis, Raylan Jeffery, and Jed Jeffery; several nieces; nephews; other relatives and friends.
Funeral services are scheduled at Wilson Funeral Home Wallis-Stewart Chapel, 443 Boynton Drive, Ringgold, Georgia on Saturday, October 19, 2024, 12 noon with Reverend Glenn Ferguson and Reverend Grady Cooper officiating. Interment will follow at Woodstation Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday, October 18, 2024 from 5-8 p.m.
Arrangements by Wilson Funeral Home Wallis-Stewart Chapel, 443 Boynton Drive, Ringgold, Georgia 30736.
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