Fayetta Mildred Nickels

Fayetta Mildred Nickels, of Garden City, Missouri, was born December 2, 1924 in Randolph, Missouri the daughter of William Jesse and Mildred Louise (Martin) Burton. She departed this life on Saturday, July 22, 2017 at the Cass Regional Medical Center, Harrisonville, Missouri at the age of 92 years, 7 months and 20 days.

On April 13, 1958, Fayetta was united in marriage to Grover Nickels.

Fayetta was employed as a bookkeeper and payroll at Vendo Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri. She was heavily involved and loved to teach kids sunday school class at a Presbyterian Church in Independence, Missouri and later at the First Christian Church, Garden City, Missouri. Fayetta had lived in Independence before moving to Garden City in 2004.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Grover Nickels on June 20, 1998 and a sister, Bonnie Hurtado.

She is survived by two sons, Francis Sifers, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, Kenneth Nickels, Independence, Missouri; two daughters, Karen Weis and husband Michael, Paola, Kansas and Christine Dodd and husband Michael, Garden City, Missouri; 7 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; a brother, Richard Burton and a sister, Joyce Williams both of Kansas City, Missouri; other relatives and friends.

I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one,
I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when day is gone.
I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times, and laughing times, and bright and sunny days.
I'd Like the tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun,
Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

Cremation. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at a later date.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Dickey Funeral Home, Harrisonville, Missouri.