Scottsbluff Star Hearld Scottsbluff, NE 13 Feb 2007 LEXINGTON - Vera F. Batt, 87, died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington, Neb. Funeral Services will be Saturday, Feb. 17, at 10:30 a.m. at Calvary Assembly of God Church in Lexington with Reverends Jason Batt and Lynn Nichols, co-officiating. Burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery in Lexington. Visitation will be held Friday, Feb. l6, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Reynolds-Love Chapel in Lexington. Memorials are suggested to the Family for later designation. Reynolds-Love Funeral Home in Lexington is in charge of arrangements Vera was born Oct. 12, 1919, in Angora, Neb. to Carl Wesley and Etta (Cunningham) Nichols. She grew up in the Angora area, where she was one of twelve children born and raised in the sod house that her parents homesteaded. When she was l3 she moved to Bayard where she stayed with a family while she finished her schooling. She graduated from Bayard High School, receiving her teaching certificate. She taught for eight years in Bayard. She was united in marriage to George Batt and three children were blessed to this union; Roger, Eugene and Patsy. Vera's teaching career ended when she began her family. In 1965, she re-entered the workforce as a bookkeeper, retiring in 1995, to become a foster grandparent for the Scottsbluff school system. She moved to Lexington in 2003. She enjoyed doing word search books and being with her family, especially her great-grandchildren. Vera was a member of First Assembly of God Church in Scottsbluff as well as attended Calvary Assembly of God Church in Lexington. She so loved children that she worked in the nursery at Calvary Assembly. Survivors include her sons, Roger and Sherry Batt of Kearney, Neb., Eugene and Kathleen Batt of Gering; daughter, Patsy and Karl Lowry of Lexington; brothers, Leonard and Barbara Nichols of Kingsman, Ariz., Lynn and Nila Nichols of Norfolk, Neb.; sisters, Avis and Merle Herman of Gering, Peggy Dobson of Alliance, Phyllis Brandt of Phoenix, Ariz.; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Her parents, four brothers and two sisters preceded Vera in death.