Nichols, Vick Roger
Vick Roger Nichols, age 72, died November 8, 2010 at Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the McDonald Funeral Home Chapel with Jimmy Garner officiating. Interment took place November 13, 201 in the Burke Memorial Park in Morganton, North Carolina. Mr. Nichols was born September 11, 1938 in Columbus, Ohio to the late Frank and Adelia May Riesinger Nichols. An Army Veteran serving during Viet Nam with the Special Forces Green Berets, he was a construction inspector and a professional wrestler known as the “Scuffin Hillbilly Vick.” Survivors include his wife, Mary Heavner Nichols of Hohenwald; three sons, Vick Nichols, Jr. of Granite Falls, North Carolina, Dennis Smith of Hickory, North Carolina and Roger Nichols of Ohio; three daughters, Adelia Crowe of Hohenwald, Wanda Hayes of Hickory, North Carolina and Vicky Nichols of Ohio; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Charity Helton.