Alvenia Nimmo
Funeral Services for Alvenia Nimmo, 97, lifelong Western Oklahoma resident will be held 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, May 4, 2016 in the First United Methodist Church, officiated by Rev. Roland Youngberg.
Burial will conclude in the Mound Cemetery, Taloga, Oklahoma under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home.
Alvenia Boggess Nimmo was born on July 16, 1918 in Putnam, Oklahoma to Ranza and Nettie (Pollock) Boggess and passed away Saturday, April 29, 2016 in her Clinton home.
The family moved to Taloga, OK when she was four where she attended school, graduating from Taloga in 1936. After two years of college she married Charles E. Nimmo in 1938 and later began teaching at Taloga and finished her B.S. degree by correspondence, extension classes, and summer school from Southwestern Oklahoma Teachers College in 1949. She later earned an M.S. at Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College, being the first of eight in the family to graduate from Oklahoma State University.
She also taught at Elk City, Missouri, Clinton, Burns Flat, and was hostess and dietician at Northern Oklahoma Junior College (now N.O.C). She had taught third grade through high school. Alvenia finished her teaching career back at Taloga after 39 years in the profession.
She was a member of the Dewey County Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Education Association, National Education Association, Delta Kappa Gamma education sorority, Friendly Neighbors Extension Club of Custer County, and with that club has gone to Hawaii, New Zealand, and Canada. Alvenia was also a member of the Oklahoma Mineral Owners Association, Clinton B.P.W., DAR, Custer County Retired Teachers, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association, and Country Women of the World serving in many capacities within these organizations. She was inducted into the Dewey County Hall of Fame in 1994. Alvenia also served on the Custer County Election Board for 24 years. With the Women of the World organization Alvenia traveled to many countries, including Ireland, New Zealand (again), Holland, Australia, Canada, and Hawaii. She has also gone to Germany, China, Singapore, and Mexico (3 times). She really liked to travel!
Alvenia loved the land, ranching and working with cattle, raising Scottish Terriers, sewing, gardening, and telling her children “how the cow ate the cabbage” until she died. Alvenia is very proud of her family and their accomplishments.
Several unusual things have happened in the later years of her life that could have been more serious than they actually were, made her believe there must be a guardian angel watching her. In 1986 and again in 1991, her creek overflowed flooding her garage, den and basement. In 1987, her electric range shorted, causing a fire that smoked the entire interior of her house requiring complete redecorating. Her car and check book were stolen and check forged. She was forced from her car. Payment for the check was replaced, the car located with no damage to it and she was not harmed. She received injury to her hand and eyes while working with cattle.
Two highlights that pleased her were being inducted into the Dewey County Hall of Fame in 1994 and being honored by the Oklahoma Blue Cross & Blue Shield at the age of 82 as the 2000 Ageless Hero Winner for Western Oklahoma in the category of Vigor and Vitality.
She is survived by her children Charles Cary Nimmo (Linda), Weatherford, Sherry Lynn Jarvis, Clinton, her grandchildren Christopher Nimmo Jarvis, (Christy) Yukon, and Michelle Lynn Jarvis of Edmond and by her great-grandchildren, Denise Renee Jarvis, Wichita, KS Ryan David Briscoe, and Ashlynn Nicole Briscoe, both of Edmond, her sister Mary Ann Boggess, Walker, MO, and her brother, Ranza Boggess, Pagosa Springs, CO.
Alvenia is also survived by her nieces, Bonnie Schomp, (Wayne), Earlsboro, DaLynne Fischer, (Dan) OKC, and Jacqueline Gallery, (Bill), Wann, and their children.
She was predeceased by her parents and her sister Joy J. Schomp.
We would like to add a special thanks to her care-giver Frances Weil.
(Paid obituary)