Juanita Faye Nuckolls

JUANITA FAYE NUCKOLLS Funeral services for longtime Dolores resident, Juanita Faye Nuckolls will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, December 17 at the Ertel Memorial Chapel. Pastor Ron Horne will be officiating. Cremation will follow. Juanita was born on April 2, 1921 in Sasakwa, Okla. the daughter of Oral Grady and Maude Estelle (Starnes) Spears. She passed away on Saturday, December 11, 2004 at the Vista Grande Nursing Home in Cortez at the age of 83. Juanita was a Registered Nurse who was in the Army Nursing Corp. and who worked in both hospitals and nursing homes. She was a kind woman who always remembered her nephews and nieces at their birthdays. She would always send a birthday card to them with $5.00 in it. She continued this tradition until she couldn’t anymore. Juanita enjoyed crafts and playing BINGO. Surviving Juanita are her two sisters, Mary Hindmarsh of Dolores, and Billie Yancey of Denver, Colo.; as well as her niece, Carol Shackelford who has helped take care of her. She leaves several other nieces and nephews; and her great nieces and nephews. Preceding her in death were her parents.