PAW PAW - Lucille Evelyn “Lucy” (Smith) (Full) Nicholson, 90, of Paw Paw peacefully left this world and entered into eternal rest with her Savior on Oct. 14, 2019.

Visitation will be held from 9:30-11:30 a.m. prior to a funeral service at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 18 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 398 Church Road, Compton. Graveside service and interment at Wyoming Cemetery in Paw Paw will immediately follow the funeral service. Funeral arrangements are being provided by Torman Funeral Home, Paw Paw.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Brian DeLong, Jeffrey DeLong, Jared Nicholson, Chase Sellers, Heath Nicholson, Jacob Nicholson and Cole Nicholson.

Lucy was born Aug. 27, 1929 in Fairmont, Minn. to Earl and Clara (Koehler) Smith. Her summers were spent visiting her Bulfer cousins in Sublette, where she met Robert Full, whom she married on Oct. 30, 1947. They divorced in 1970. On Dec. 12, 1973, she married John A. Nicholson and they were married for 39 years before his death on Sept. 26, 2013.

Survivors include two daughters, Linda (Chuck) Sellers of Paw Paw and Lisa (Nicholson) Hoebing of Malta; two sons, John (Sue) Nicholson and Jared (Dawn) Nicholson of Paw Paw; one son-in-law, Wally DeLong; 15 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and one sister-in-law, Susan Smith.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John; one daughter, Clara Marie (Full) DeLong; seven children in infancy, Roberta Ann Full, Robert John Full, Martin Joe Full, David James Full, James Francis Full, Brian Michael Full, and Donna May Full; one son, Jeffrey Nicholson; one son-in-law, Jeffrey Hoebing; two brothers, Martin and Howard Smith; and two sisters, Kathryn Tow and Clarice Larimore.

Lucy graduated from Fairmont High School in 1947. She worked as a nurse’s aide at Mendota Community Hospital. She became a bookkeeper for Conkey’s in Mendota and Alexander Lumber in Compton and was a bank teller for the State Bank of Paw Paw. These prior jobs prepared her to keep the books for her husband’s construction business, Nicholson Construction & Excavating. Later in life, when most people would have retired, she became partners in real estate at LNG Realtors in Paw Paw and then started Nicholson Real Estate. When her husband’s health required her to care for him at home, she retired. No matter what she did, she always gave 110 percent. She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Compton, where she served in many areas over the years. She loved unconditionally and gave with her whole heart. Whether it was becoming “Sul” to John’s four kids, caring for her mother in their home, tenderly providing for Clare’s needs after her car accident and suffering with Alzheimer’s, or doting over John until his death, she did it with love and patience that could have only come from God. She was lovingly called Grandma Sul and Little Grandma. For the last three weeks of her life, she required 24-hour care. Those three weeks were a testimony of her love, as her children and grandchildren came together and took shifts caring for her. Her legacy is one of love.

Memorials may be directed to the Paw Paw Fire Department, Paw Paw Lions Club, Immanuel Lutheran Church, or OSF Hospice.

Please visit www.tormanfuneralhome.com to sign the online guest book.