Captain Bert Cecil Nicholson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Abt 1918; World War I (US) 66th Engineers Captain - severed 18 months in France

Notes:

B. C. Nicholson, City Trainman, Rites Saturday

Bert C. Nicholson, 1231 Euclid, veteran city trainman, died Thursday at Oklahoma City General Hospital. He had been ill several weeks.

Foreman of M-K & T Railway’s maintenance shops in Oklahoma City for 16 years, Nicholson served as captain in the 66th Engineers during World War I. He served in France 18 months, directing work in some of the repair shops which kept American troop trains moving.

Born and reared in Hornell, N.Y., Nicholson migrated to Denison, Texas, where he was married.

He came to Oklahoma City in 1926 and went to work for M-K&T Railroad. He kept that job until shortly before his death, when illness sent him to the hospital.

He was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge at Denison, India Temple Shrine in Oklahoma City, and a former member of the American Legion.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Frances Nicholson. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Smith and Kernke Funeral Home. Burial will be in Denison.
(The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Friday, March 09, 1945)

Bert married Frances Harnest on 24 Jul 1907 in Denison, Grayson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]