YOU FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT

YOU FINISHED YOUR COURSE

YOU KEPT THE FAITH

2 TIMOTHY 4:7

BARBARA BORDEN NICHOLS, WENT HOME TO BE WITH THE LORD ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2025. SHE WAS THE ONLY CHILD BORN TO WILLIAM BORDEN AND OLGA EADY BORDEN ON NOVEMBER 16, 1931, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, NY, SHE LATER MOVED TO CHESAPEAKE, VA, (NORFOLK COUNTY) AT AN EARLY AGE. WITH HER GREAT AUNT.

BARBARA ATTENDED THE CHESAPEAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND LATER RETIRED FROM RENA B. WRIGHT PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHESAPEAKE, OCTOBER 1991.

SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE LATE JAMES E. NICHOLS, IN THAT MARRIAGE 9 CHILDREN WERE BORN, 5 GIRLS AND 4 BOYS, BERNARD, BARBARA JEAN, CAROLYN, JAMES, JR., DEBORAH, WILLIAM, GLORIA, PATRICIA, AND RONNIE.

MRS. NICHOLS LOVED TO DRESS AND LOOK HER BEST, AT ALL TIMES, SHE JUST LOVED CLOTHES AND HER HATS.

BARBARA LOVED THE LORD, SHE WAS A FAITHFUL AND DEDICATED MEMBER OF ST. THOMAS A.M.E. ZION CHURCH, FOR MANY YEARS, WHERE SHE LOVED SERVING ON THE NUMBER 2 USHER BOARD AND THE DEACONESS BOARD, SHE LOVED HER PASTOR, AND HER CHURCH FAMILY.

THANK YOU, LORD, FOR A LOVING MOTHER WHO MET NO STRANGERS, SHE WAS ALWAYS LOVING AND KIND TO EVERYONE, ALWAYS GREETING YOU WITH A SMILE ON HER FACE. SHE LOVED HELPING THOSE IN NEED BY FEEDING OR FINDING WAYS TO HELP SUPPLY SHELTER TO THE HOMELESS. SHE HAD A BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT.

SHE WAS A LOVING AND DEVOTED MOTHER TO HER CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT- GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND OTHERS.

TO CHERISH HER PRECIOUS MEMORIES, SHE LEAVES 5 DAUGHTERS: BARBARA JEAN DALTON (GODFREY) CAROLYN NICHOLS, DEBORAH SKYLES (WALTER) ALL OF CHESAPEAKE, VA, GLORIA NICHOLS, PALM BAY FLORIDA, PATRICIA NICHOLS, CHESAPEAKE, VA. A HOST OF GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT -GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, OTHER RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND HER ST. THOMAS FAMILY.

THOSE WHO PREDECEASED HER, WILLIAM AND OLGA BORDEN, BERNARD NICHOLS RONNIE NICHOLS, JAMES NICHOLS, JR. AND WILLIAM NICHOLS.

A funeral service will be held 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at St. Thomas AME Zion Church, 1700 Melon Street, Norfolk. Interment will follow at Roosevelt Memorial Park. Viewing will be held from 5pm until 7pm Tuesday, September 24, 2025, at Pretlow and Sons Funeral Home, 500 Liberty Street, Chesapeake.

Livestream will be provided by St. Thomas AME Zion Church: https://www.youtube.com/@st.thomasamezionchurchnorf3867 and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064837625056