Ida May "Terri" Nichols

Ida May “Terri” Nichols passed away peacefully under hospice care at Bernadette Home Care in Oxnard on January 13, 2025. She was born Ida May Kron, daughter of Carl Marx Kron (a Swedish immigrant) and Lenore Benscoter Kron in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 22, 1926.  In 1932 she moved with parents to Los Angeles from Iowa during the depression in a Model T Ford.  In 1943 she married her high school sweetheart, John Nichols in Pasadena, CA.  He preceded her in death after 65 years of marriage. 

John and Terri moved to Ventura, CA in 1957 with their two sons, John, Jr. and Jim.  As the boys grew older she went to work, first as a switchboard operator at Joseph Magnin, a women’s clothing store in downtown Ventura and then for the Ventura Unified School District and was the second woman to drive a big bus and later driving the Special Ed. children. She retired from that job after 17 years.  She then worked for 11 years at The Victorian (now The Lexington) retirement home as a receptionist and then in marketing and sales.  Through the years her volunteer activities included suicide prevention, ombudsman for skilled nursing facilities, Pink Lady in charge of youth volunteers at Community Memorial Hospital and working with the homeless. 

She leaves behind many friends in her bridge groups.  She is survived by her son John, Jr. and wife Leslie of Santa Paula, son Jim and wife Sharon of Erlanger, Kentucky, grandson Dr. Tann Nichols and wife Nicole Kuzmin-Nichols of Edgewood, Kentucky and great grandsons Andrew and Sean of Edgewood, Kentucky. 

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