Mr. Flavil Hall Nichols

Visitation was held Monday, April 30, 2018, from 4 until 8 p.m., at Kilgore-Green Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at 11 a.m., at Sixth Avenue Church of Christ, with burial at Walker Memory Gardens. Glenn Colley, Nick Hamilton, and David Street will officiate.

Mr. Nichols was a 1939 graduate from Freed-Hardeman College at Henderson, TN,

then returned for his third year for of the Bible, etc. Later he studied at Florence State Teachers' College now UNA. He has made a life-long study of the Bible. He began preaching when he was fifteen years old. He did local pulpit work in Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky for 76 years. He also preached in many congregations and on lectureships in many other states; and wrote many articles for brotherhood papers. Upon retirement from full-time preaching, he donated the majority of his personal library to the Gus Nichols Memorial Library named for his father at Faulkner University on the campus in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Nichols served on the Board of Directors of Childhaven in Cullman, AL and on the Board of Trustees at Faulkner University in Montgomery, AL. He was a member of Chase Park Church of Christ in Huntsville, AL, at the time of his death.

He is preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Mary Hardin Nichols; parents, Gus and Matilda Brown Nichols, and the following siblings; Gracie Nichols Young, Vodie Nichols Kerr, Carrie Nichols Hamilton, Foy Nichols, and Hudson Nichols.

He is survived by two children: Jimmy Nichols and Peggy Nichols Champion and husband Don; three grandchildren, Amy Bryan (Wes), Brandon Champion, and Christina Nichols; three great-granddaughters, Kaylee Hall, Chelsea Bryan and Aubrey Bryan; two siblings, Bertha Nichols Blackwood and Hardeman Nichols; and many cousins, nieces, and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to

AGAPE of North Alabama; P. 0. Box 127; Madison, AL 35758

Childhaven; 1816 Childhaven Road, NE; Cullman, AL 35055

Faulkner University; 5345 Atlanta Highway; Montgomery, AL 36109

Flavil & Mary Nichols Endowed Scholarship Fund,

Freed-Hardeman University; 158 East Main Street; Henderson, TN 38340