OBITUARY
 

Nettie "Jane" Nickless February 21, 1932 - August 18, 2018 Nettie Jane Nickless 86, returned to her Heavenly Home on August 18, 2018, after and audacious battle. Nettie Jane was the last sibling born to the late William Lee and Alice Tyson on February 21, 1932 on the farm that was located on what is now LBJ Freeway and Midway Road in Farmers Branch, Texas. She often spoke of her fond memories she experienced on that farm during a very loving down to earth basic simple childhood. She was always telling us “stories” of times on the farm, the days of picken cotton and how the last bale was to buy her clothes for the year and she would pray she wouldn’t outgrow her shoes. How on special weekends her older brother Pete and beloved wife Viola would bring the ice where he iced his fish he caught from the Trinity to sale and they used it to crank ice cream. Ate it so quickly until her and her sister Nannie would lay on the door of the storm cellar to thaw and go eat more. Told of the days she played in the barn, running with her dog through the corn fields and hiding so she didn’t have to come in for supper. How she looked forward to the letters from her brother Willie that was in the Navy. He would write her parents about his travels after surviving Pearl Harbor. How she the treasured the only store bought doll she ever had that her eldest sister Annie gave to her. Remembering when her sister Ruthy got caught playing their Papa’s cherished battery powered radio that was the sole touch with the outside world. How they guarded the coal oil to have light to do their homework, read the paper or anything requiring light. She attended Addison School that was later converted into what is now known as “Magic Time Machine Restaurant”. Nettie Jane married just before her fourteenth birthday in 1946 to Mabrey Anthony and parented all four children over the next twenty five years. Above all her grandest of life’s triumphs was motherhood. Nettie Jane was a loving, caring attentive, giving mother that always just seem to know what her children needed without even them asking. She made it known with every chance she was given to how precious her children, grandchildren, Great-Grandchildren and Great-Great-Grandchildren were to her not only in voice but by her actions. Her legacy will be continually celebrated by all that knew her. Nettie Jane was a Christian and her faith carried her through all the paths of her life and gave her solace that prepared her to GO HOME. She was preceded in death by her husband Robert “Bob” Nickless, the Father of her children Mabrey Anthony, her parents William & Alice Tyson, three Brothers, four Sisters, and her eldest son Scotty Donald Anthony. She is survived by her daughter Dianne Noblitt and husband Ronny Noblitt, her Son Roger Anthony and wife Debby Anthony and her daughter Teresa Keithly and husband Stephen Keithly. Nettie Jane is the proud Granny of eleven Grandchildren, fifteen Great-Grandchildren and three Great-Great-Grandchildren. She also leaves behind many beloved nieces and nephews. They are among the countless of you who will never forget her and the imprint she left on our lives. The family would like to thank Cross Timbers Rehabilitation and Healthcare for the love and care they provided her. The family will receive friends from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. at Mulkey-Mason Funeral Home in Lewisville, TX, Wednesday, August 22. 2018. A celebration of Jane's life will be held 1:30 p.m. Thursday, August 23, 2018 at the funeral home presided by Pastor Marc Farnell. Interment will follow at Keenan Cemetery in Farmers Branch.

Keenan Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas