Tyler Morning Telegraph Tyler, TX Wednesday, Oct 7, 1998 sec. 3, pg. 4 Alva C. Nix, Sr. MINEOLA - Services for Alva Charles Nix, Sr., 87, Carthage, father of a Mineola resident, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at Pine Grove Assembly Church of Beckville with the Revs. Jack Harris and Billy Shoffner officiating. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery, Rusk County, under direction of Jimerson Funeral Home, Carthage. Mr. Nix died Oct. 4 in Mineola. He was born Aug. 3, 1911, in Hutchins to the late William and Sarah Elizabeth Leslie Nix. He retired from the maintenance department of city of Carthage and was a member of Pine Grove Assembly Church of Beckville. Survivors include sons, Jimmy Norris Nix, Timpson, and Alva Charles Nix Jr., Mesquite; daughters, Ima Fae Wikoff, Grangeville, Idaho, Betty Jean Curbow, Mineola, Janis Marie Travis and Brenda Sue Harris, both of Beckville; sister, Nell Williams, Nacogdoches; 15 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Grandsons will be pallbearers. Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at funeral home.