Ruby Coleen Nichols

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Ruby Coleen Nichols, 88, of Longmont, Colo., passed away June 9, 2020.

She was born Jan. 30, 1932 in Putnam County to Carl and Gladys (Terry) Phillips. She graduated from Fillmore High School.

She married Walter Doyle Nichols on July 21, 1950 in Morocco, Ind.

Coleen was a homemaker and a realtor. She moved with her husband as his work locations with IBM changed. She made a home for her family in Fillmore; Sherman, Texas; Overland Park, Kan.; Acton, Mass.; Princeton Junction, N.J.; Boca Raton, Fla.; Stuart, Fla.; and Longmont, Colo.

She was involved in Farm Bureau, national-level Camp Fire and with Christian churches.

She enjoyed writing, traveling, cooking, sewing, embroidery and maintaining friendships with friends and family with notes and cards. She shared her love of family by embroidering beautiful baby quilts.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and her siblings Crystal Woods and Charles Phillips.

Coleen is survived by her three daughters, Loretta Chapa (Teofilo), Cathy Nichols and Donna Nichols ( John Hackman); two sisters, Luella Jackson (Tink) and Bea Corbin; her sister-in-law Middy Phillips; brother-in-law Dallas Nichols; grandchildren Stephanie Fletcher (Jim), Kelley Williams (Shaun), Christopher Kopp (Darci), Charlotte Chapa and Robert Kopp (Alex); as well as nine great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at a later date due to COVID-19 at Ahlberg Funeral Chapel, Longmont.

Cremation entrusted to Ahlberg Funeral Chapel and Crematory. Inurnment will be at a later time at Fillmore Cemetery in Fillmore.

Contributions to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.