This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fitzwater, Nicholas, Stump, Fiocchi, McNutt Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GdW.2ACIB/236 Message Board Post: 25 February 2005 The Times Reporter New Philadelphia, Ohio Calvin R. (C. Ray) Nicholas, 82, of Canton died Wednesday evening, Feb. 23, in Aultman Hospital at Canton following a brief illness. He was born April 3, 1922, in Fayette County, W.Va., son of the late General Custer Nicholas and Holly Drake Nicholas. Calvin was a Sergeant in the Army Air Corps during World War II, serving aboard a B-17 in European and North Africa Theaters. He was a member of the National Pilot?s Assn. He was a 35-year employee of the Timken Co. at Canton retiring in 1986. He is survived by sons and daughter-in-law, Dwayne and Jackie Nicholas of Carrollton, Roger Nicholas of Waynesburg and Benjamin Nicholas of the home; daughter, Bella Stump of Canton; two brothers, Forrest Nicholas of Minerva and Raymond Lloyd Nicholas of Canton and Florida; two sisters, Fannie Fiocchi of Vineland, N.J., and Mary Josephine McNutt of Carrollton; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. His wife of 57 years, the former Geraldine G. Fitzwater, whom he married on April 21, 1946, preceded him in death on Dec. 29, 2003. A brother, Arthur Lee Nicholas, is also deceased. Funeral services will be Monday at 11 in the Sweeney-Dodds Funeral Home of Carrollton with Rev. Gordon Warner officiating. Burial will follow in New Harrisburg Cemetery where full military honors will be presented by V.F.W., American Legion and D.A.V. Friends may call Sunday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sweeney-Dodds (330) 627-5505