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On March 16, 2026, Clyde E. Nichols slipped away while living at Landmark Care facility in Yakima, Washington. He was 100 years and 6 months old.
He was born at home on Sept. 9, 1925, in Savery, Wyoming. He was the oldest son of 10 children born to Amasa Oscar and Hazel Nichols. The family moved to Washington when he was 11 years old. They settled in Onalaska on a large farm. When war came, he was drafted into the Army. He was sent to Belgium, where he was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and was a POW until the war ended.
In 1947, he married Jean Guenther, the “girl next door.” They settled in Spanaway, Washington, and he went to Bates Trade School in Tacoma to become a sheet metal worker.
The couple had two daughters. He joined the Masonic Lodge and became the master of his local lodge in 1967.
He loved fishing and spent many vacation days on lakes Cushman, Jamison, Bonaparte and his favorite, Lake Curlew near Republic, Washington.
He is survived by his daughters, Delores Haase (Chuck) and Donna Edwards (Tom); two grandsons, Ben Haase and Adam Haase; and many nieces and nephews.
He will be buried at Alpha Cemetery next to his wife, Jean, on April 25 at 10:30 a.m., with a reception following at Ramblin Jack’s Rib Eye Restaurant at 1 p.m.
