Individual Details

Ralph Walter Nicholson

(21 Sep 1897 - 15 Oct 1968)

On the U. S. Census of 1930 for Seattle, King Co., Washington Ralph W. Nicholson appears with his wife Florence, daughters Carol Ann and Joan. Ralph worked as a manufacturers agent.

Seattle Daily Times, October 16, 1968, Page 73, Col. 2: Funeral services for Ralph W. Nicholson, 71, of 9800 Bayard Ave. N. W., retired owner of Nicholson's Venetians, will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Acacia chapel. Burial will be in Acacia. He died yesterday in a nursing home. Mr. Nicholson born in California, came to Seattle in 1929 and started one of the first venetian-blind companies, later called Nicholson's Venetians. He retired in 1967. He graduated from the University of California and served in the Army during World War I. He was a member of the Rotary Club, the Masons and the Washington Athletic Club. Surviving are his wife, Patricia Florence; two daughters, Mrs. Lester Lewis and Mrs. Joan Brownlee, Honolulu, and a sister, Mrs. Louis Ford, San Francisco.

Seattle Daily Times, October 16, 1968, Page 73, Col. 6: Ralph W. Nicholson, 9800 Bayard Ave. N. W., Oct. 15. Husband of Patricia Florence, Father of Ms. Lester (Carol) Lewis, of Yakima; Mrs. Joan Brownlee, Honolulu. Sister of Mrs. Louis (Marian) Ford, San Francisco. Six grandchildren. Services Thursday, 3 p.m. Acacia Funeral Home. Interment, Acacia Memorial Park.


Events

Birth21 Sep 1897California
Marriage14 Dec 1922Alameda Co., California - Patricia Florence Dean Kirkpatrick
Death15 Oct 1968Seattle, King Co., Washington
Soc Sec No533-32-7337
SSN issuedWashington
BurialAcacia Memorial Park, Lake Forest Park, King Co., Washington
RaceWhite

Families

SpousePatricia Florence Dean Kirkpatrick (1898 - 1968)
ChildCarol Ann Nicholson (1923 - 1987)
ChildJoan Nicholson (1930 - )

Endnotes

1. 1930 Census King Co., Washington.

2. Ancestry.com.

3. Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Database online. Number: 533-32-7337; Issue State: Washington; Issue Date: 1951-1952..

4. Ancestry.com, California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).

5. Ancestry.com, California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).

6. 1930 Census King Co., Washington.

7. Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Database online. Number: 533-32-7337; Issue State: Washington; Issue Date: 1951-1952..

8. Obituary of Ralph W. Nicholson, Seattle Daily Times, October 16, 1968, Page 73, Columns 2 & 6.

9. Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Database online. Number: 533-32-7337; Issue State: Washington; Issue Date: 1951-1952..

10. Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Database online. Number: 533-32-7337; Issue State: Washington; Issue Date: 1951-1952..

11. Obituary of Ralph W. Nicholson, Seattle Daily Times, October 16, 1968, Page 73, Columns 2 & 6.

12. Ancestry.com, California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).