Delores Gean Nichols

Delores Gean Nichols obituary

Delores Gean Nichols

Delores Nichols Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Kidwell-Garber Funeral Home - Versailles Chapel on Dec. 2, 2025.

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Delores Gean (Cotten) Nichols, age 84, of Fortuna, passed away November 29, 2025. She was born May 23, 1941, in Tuscumbia, Missouri, the daughter of Otis Taylor Cotten & Gertrude Venita Matthews.

She graduated from Pilot Grove, Missouri and attended college at State Fair. Delores worked in manufacturing as well as accounting in various places. Delores retired from Morgan County R-2 School.

In 1959, she married Robert Wayne Nichols, son of Robert Nichols, Jr. and Mildred Armina Hooper. They were married 65 years and had five children: Kimberlie Diane McGinnis married to Tildon McGinnis; Robert Troy Nichols married Belinda Lee (Comstock) Nichols; Karen Galene Rhoads married to David Rhoads; Janatta Leigh Klein married to John Kent Klein and Leslie LeAn Nichols; eight grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Robert Wayne Nichols; two children, Troy Nichols and Karen Rhoads; son-in-law, John Klein; and daughter-in-law, Belinda Nichols.

Graveside services and inurnment will be held on December 8th, at 10:30 a.m., at Miller's Chapel Cemetery in the Longwood Area in Pettis County, Missouri.

Cremation arrangements are under the direction and care of the Kidwell-Garber Funeral Home of Versailles.

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