Joseph Vincent Nicholas

JOSEPH VINCENT NICHOLAS

Joseph Vincent Nicholas passed from this life on Sunday, March 8, 2015, at McKay-Dee
Hospital; Ogden, Utah. Joseph was born July 13, 1942, in Mobile, Alabama, to John
and Aline Nicholas. Immediately after graduating from Most Pure Heart of Mary High
School, in Mobile, he joined the United States Air Force. He retired from the Air Force
in 1981, with 21 years active military service, and eventually settled in Sacramento,
California. While in Sacramento, Joseph Nicholas was extremely active in Fraternal,
Civic, Benevolent and Social Activities, and received numerous awards for his
involvement. Later, Joseph worked as a Third Level Supervisor in the Maintenance
Division at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and retired after 24 years as a civilian employee.
Joseph achieved the highest degree of the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most
Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge for the states of California and Hawaii, Inc., Free
and Accepted Masons, for the years 1975 - 1978.

After moving to Clearfield, Utah in November 1998, he affiliated with Mt. Ogden Lodge
#20 assisting when called upon.
Joseph frequently studied the Word of God at Embry Chapel, AME Church in Ogden,
Utah. He enjoyed discussing the Bible.

Joseph will be truly missed by Maxine, his devoted wife of fifty-one years. They had no
children.

Joseph is preceded in death by his parents John and Aline Nicholas, brother
Michael Nicholas, Younger sister Bernadette Nicholas and younger brother Martin
Nicholas. He leaves an older brother John Paul Nicholas and his family; sisters: Peggy
Monroe Ray (Raymond) and her family, Barbara Koehler (Kirk) and family, beloved twin
sister Leona Nicholas Welch (James) and family, youngest sister Catherine Zoe
Nicholas Ray (Howard) and family, and host of relatives in Mobile, Alabama and others
in New York, and all over the United States.

Memorial services will be held on Friday, March 13, 2015 at 6 p.m. at the Ogden Masonic Lodge, 1240 20th Street (at Harrison Blvd).
ServiceOgden Masonic Lodge
1240 20th Street
Ogden, UT 84404
March 13, 2015
6:00 PM