This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JIB.2ACI/12483.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Flossie has always been a nickname for Florence in my experience (my mother-in-law, for one). I found an obit on the Kalamazoo Rootsweb message board (searched on the word Rice or Nichols) for her brother, whose name I did not record, that said their parents were William and Caroline Nichols, if that's any help.