Nola J. Nance
Nola J. Nance, 92, Moses Lake resident, passed away Sunday, July 27, 2008, at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008, at Kayser’s Chapel of Memories with Rev. Floyd Wilkes officiating. Graveside committal services will be held at 1 p.m., Monday, Aug. 4 at the GAR Cemetery in Snohomish, Wash. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 8 a.m. until the time of the service. Arrangements are in care of Kayser’s Chapel and Crematory, Moses Lake. You may sign the guest book or leave a note for the family at www.kayserschapel.com.
Nola was born June 24, 1916, in Shawnee, Okla., daughter of the late Saint Moses and Nancy (Curtis) Hicks; the 10th of 11 children. Chester Lee Nance entered her life when her father agreed that he could court her if he would play his guitar at church meetings. They were married in 1935 and moved to California where Chester worked in the shipyards during WWII and their children Chester Lee Jr. and Juanita (Nance) Ottestad were born. Following the war they moved to the Cottage Grove, Ore., area. Nola loved to fish and fell in love with the area’s great salmon fishing; she would often bring home and can salmon she had caught. In the early 1960s they moved from Cottage Grove to Blue River where they worked together to develop the “McKenzie River Trailer Park,” which they owned and operated for several years. After selling the trailer park, they moved to eastern Oregon where Chester worked on the construction of the I-84 freeway system. They retired to Maltby, Wash., in 1972 until Chester’s passing in 1979.
She then lived with her daughter and son-in-law in Seattle when she met Paul Greeley. They were married in 1981 and enjoyed fishing in the Northwest and winter snow birding between their homes in Puyallup, Wash., and Yuma, Ariz., until Paul’s passing in 1984. Nola moved to Moses Lake in 1992 and has lived here since.She loved fishing and gardening and was quite an accomplished artist. She also loved being a homemaker and all the tasks involved with raising and taking care of her family.
She is survived by one son, Chester Lee Nance, Jr., Long Beach, Wash., daughter and son-in-law, Nita and Doug Ottestad, Moses Lake;,one sister, Opal Maddux, Port Orchard, Wash., two grandchildren, David Nance and Dena King, six great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter. Nine brothers and sisters preceded her in death as well.