Frances Rebecca Nix

Highlands, NC - Frances Rebecca Nix, age 90, passed away Thursday, September 29, 2011 at a Highlands-Cashiers Hospital. She was born in Pickens County, SC; the daughter of the late Barnett and Rose Melvina "Mev" Hicks Wilson. She was married to Claude Roscoe Nix who passed away November 1, 1996. She worked at summer homes in Highlands, at the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital for 8 years and also worked at the Biological Station. She was a member of the Highlands First Baptist Church and attended Westside Baptist Church. She was a former Sunday School teacher and a former secretary.

She is survived by a brother, Louis Wilson and his wife, Frances, of Mtn. Rest, SC. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Corinne Norton and Louise Ledford and four brothers, Bill Wilson, Warren Wilson, Toliver Wilson and L. B. Wilson.

Funeral services will be held Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Bryant-Grant Funeral Home in Highlands with Rev. Roy Lowe officiating. Burial will be in Highlands Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Woodrow Wilson, Harvey Wilson, Edward Wilson, Wayne Wilson, Jim Nix and Gene Norton. The family will receive friends Sunday from 1:00 until 2:00 p.m., one hour prior to the service, at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Four Seasons Hospice, 571 South Allen Rd., Flat Rock, NC 28731.

Bryant-Grant Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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