Lucille Emma Nicholson Place was born September 11, 1911, in Santa Rita, Grant County, New Mexico, to Luther E. and Stella Byrem Nicholson. She grew up around the mining towns of Silver City, Hurley and Santa Rita, New Mexico. She met and married a boy named Bill Brennen. They had one child, a boy whom they called Billy. Lucille and Bill divorced after a couple of years, he going his way and she and the boy going hers. Lucille met and married George Boyd Place in Williams, Arizona. George was working on the San Juan Bridge in New Mexico and Lucille decided that she could not handle her son, a baby and another one on the way. She contacted her ex husband and shipped Billy off to California to his father. When the bridge job was over, they went to Albuquerque where George worked on road construction. They had two children, a boy and a girl. George worked in many places, mostly on construction. When the children were big teenagers, George and Lucille divorced. Lucille moved to Safford, Arizona, where she joined the LDS church. She had lived there only two and one half months when she must have had a massive stroke and died in her sleep, October 4, 1952.
Bio by Nancy E. Brown
Bio by Nancy E. Brown
Lucille Emma Nicholson Place was born September 11, 1911, in Santa Rita, Grant County, New Mexico, to Luther E. and Stella Byrem Nicholson. She grew up around the mining towns of Silver City, Hurley and Santa Rita, New Mexico. She met and married a boy named Bill Brennen. They had one child, a boy whom they called Billy. Lucille and Bill divorced after a couple of years, he going his way and she and the boy going hers. Lucille met and married George Boyd Place in Williams, Arizona. George was working on the San Juan Bridge in New Mexico and Lucille decided that she could not handle her son, a baby and another one on the way. She contacted her ex husband and shipped Billy off to California to his father. When the bridge job was over, they went to Albuquerque where George worked on road construction. They had two children, a boy and a girl. George worked in many places, mostly on construction. When the children were big teenagers, George and Lucille divorced. Lucille moved to Safford, Arizona, where she joined the LDS church. She had lived there only two and one half months when she must have had a massive stroke and died in her sleep, October 4, 1952.
Bio by Nancy E. Brown
Bio by Nancy E. Brown
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