W.T. Shumake & Daughters

July 10, 1032 - October 21, 2025

Ollie Jane Everette Nicholson, 94, of Louisville transitioned on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 in Hopkinsville, KY.

Visitation 9-11am Friday, October 31, 2025 at W.T. Shumake & Daughters Funeral Home 3815 Newburg Road. Funeral to follow at 11am. Burial Lebanon National Cemetery, Lebanon, Kentucky.

Ollie Jane Everette Nicholson, beloved Mother of Carol Nicholson Watters, Matthew (Francis), Christopher (Ann), Michael (Vanessa), Steven (Edyth), Stephanie Northington (Kenneth), Stanley (Diana) and Wesley passed peacefully from this life on Tuesday, October 21, 2025.

She was birthed by a midwife, witnessed by Mrs. Jennie Covington on July 10, 1932, at her parent’s farm on Greenlake Road in the Ellerebe Community of Rockingham, North Carolina. She is pre-deceased by her parents Elias Preston Everette and Beulah Winchester Everette, six siblings: Eula Mae, Anna, Hubert Sr., Martha, Lawrence, and Carlson.

She is a 1952 graduate of Ellerebe High School. Her foundation of faith was built at Holly Grove Baptist Church, growing in grace with the baptism in Jesus’ name in Hodgenville, KY, and continuing to learn to live a life pleasing to God.

She was married to Robert Lee Nicholson for 52 years before his passing in January 2007. During his 23 years of military service, their journeys required her lived experiences and creative skills to raise their children, celebrating their goals and accomplishments. They established homes in Germany and several states within the United States along the way, where the state of Kentucky became home, the City of Louisville became life, and the Newburg and New Broadmoor Neighborhoods became a place of love for her.

She cherished the bonds of special friendships that were made throughout the years. She loved sewing, gardening, being outside, good food, art, music, reading, writing, and good conversations with visitors on the front porch. Many good deeds she sowed whether spiritually or naturally, sharing what she had. Even through life’s trials she would declare that “God Will Make It Alright” and that He was her “Lilly of the Valley”.

Precious memories are left to her eight children, twenty grandchildren, a host of great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, family and friends.