DAILY TIMES MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA APRIL 10, 1944 MRS. JUDITH M. NICKLESS DEAD Mrs. Judith Margaret Nickless, wife of Rufus Nickless, died at 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening at Dunn Memorial Hospital where she was admitted April 2. She had been in failing health since 1932 and her final illness was of only a week's duration. The remains were removed to the Sherwood & Ferguson funeral home for burial preparation and will lie in state there after 10:00 o'clock Tuesday forenoon. Funeral service will be held at the Sherwood & Ferguson chapel at 2:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and burial will be made in the Cobb cemetery. The son (Daughter) of Josiah and Caroline Cobb Pierce, she was born in Perry township near Springville, March 30, 1866. Her marriage with Rufus Nickless occurred in Perry township in October 1887. Survivors besides the husband are a daughter, Mrs. Carl P. Sherwin, Scarsdale, N. Y.; a son, Arva Nickless, Philadelphia, Pa.; four grandchildren, one great grandchild, a brother, Thomas Pierce, Fayetteville; a sister, Mrs. Emil Schmidt, Bedford, and a number of nieces and nephews. The brother, Arva Nickless and wife were in Bedford at the time of Mrs. Nickless' death, having been called here by the death of Mrs. Arva Nickless' brother, Rev. George Herman Sears, and are the guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Herschel Sears, 1221 Sixteenth Street. Mrs. Rufus Nickless was a member of the Old Indian Creek Primitive Baptist Church.