James "Pete" Nichols

Funeral services for James "PETE"� Maddux Nichols, 88 of Lutz, FL formerly of the Buffalo Valley Community of Putnam County will be Saturday, Nov. 12 at 11 A.M. from the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home. Interment, with military honors, will follow in the Smellage Cemetery in the Boma Community Mr. Nichols died Monday night November 7, 2011 at Florida Hospital in Tampa, FL. He was born June 10, 1923 in Buffalo Valley to the late Jamie Grimes Nichols and Edith Maddux Nichols Neal. He was a graduate of Baxter Seminary and a Army veteran. He was a retired Senior Engineering Technician with General Motors in Warren, MI. with 30+ plus of service. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by wife Imogene Carr Nichols on Aug 4, 2002 and a sister Mary Ann Nichols Bartlett. Survivors include daughter & son-in-law Carol Lynn & Kerry Sarnowski of Wesley Chapel, FL, two step-sons & daughters-in-law Leamon Ray & Kathleen Buckner of Centerline, MI. Gene Edwin & Carol Buckner of Tavares, FL, two sisters & brothers-in-law Betty & Ken Maynard, Barbara Janice & Tom Carr all of Dickson, Tn., five grandchildren: Brian Buckner, Bonnie ( William) Weir, Kimberly (William) Aydelotte, Rhonda Moon and Samantha Sarnowski, four great-grandchildren. Family & friends will serve as pallbearers. Family will receive friends Friday from 3 to 8 P.M. and after 10 A.M. Saturday at the funeral home. Bro. Herb Leftwich will officiate.