East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1957-04-18
RE. Nixon Civic
Leader Builder
Dies Suddenly

at IL o'clock this morning at tn
Owens Funeral Home, 16049 Eucli,
ave., for Robert e. Nixon II
whose sudden death on April 16 il
Lakeside Hospital came as a shocl
to his family and friends. The Rev
M. Wayne Mcqueen, minister o
Windermere Methodist Church of
ficiated. Interment will be mad,
in Greenlawn Cemetery, Plymouth
Ohio where Mr.. Nixon was borl
June Ord, 1885.
Mr.. Nixon was we'll known il
building, Kiwanis and Masoni,
circles. He came to Cleveland il
1910 and engaged in general build
ing and contracting soon after
forming his own company under
his own name. During the years he
built such we'll known structures
as the Shaker Hall Apartments
Shaker Square; Windermere Ma.
sonic Temple, the Windermere
Methodist church following its
disastrous fire; and many indus
trial, community and residential
buildings.
He was one of the founders and
vice president of the East Cleveland
Savings & Loan Company. 1t was
while here he attended a company
board meeting that he was rushed
to Lakeside hospital for an emer-
gency operation, following which
he died.
Fraternally, Mr.. Nixon was a
32nd degree Mason and held men,
bership in Valley of Cleveland Con-
sistory, AL Koran Shrine and the
Court of Couer dillon. He was
member of Windermere Methodist
Church, the Cleveland Athletic Club
and a charter member and past
president of Kiwanis of East Cleve-
land. Since his retirement in 194S
he had resided in West Palm Beach
where he held membership in XII
wants, the West Palm Beach
County Shrine Club and the Elks.
Mr.. Nixon for years was a valued
member of the East Cleveland
Board Of Education, the family
then residing on Chapman ave.
Their Cleveland home is in
Shaker Hall.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Ethel Barrell Nixon whom he mar
ried in 1910; a brother, Leon E.
Nixon of Cleveland Heights; and
four sisters, Miss Ruby Nixon of
Shaker Heights, Mrs. ALA Parker
of San Diego, CAL; Mrs. Mixer of
East Cleveland and Mrs. Lucy
Schneider of Cuyahoga Falls.
Windermer Masonic Order Lodge
No. 627 conducted it's ritual We'd
nesday evening.
Carl VOll
Carl Voll, father of Edward c.
Voll, member of the East Cleve-
land Police Department, died in
Euclid Glenville Hospital, April
18th, aged "a years. Services were
held April 18th in st. Joseph
Catholic Church with burial in
Calvary Cemetary. Mr.. Voll was
a member of the Holy Name
at st. Joseph's.
He had been associated with
milk distribution for forty years,
having first been engaged in it on
his own dairy farm near Hudson,
and for the past 81 years, associ-
ated with the wholesale department
of Telling-Belle Vernon Co. In 1854
he Joined the Pinkerton National
Detective Agency.
In addition to his son, there sur
wives his wife, Mrs. Rose Kirchner
Voll; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy
Domke, and a sister, Mrs. Matilda
Rochester, NY.
The family home is at $40 East
l47th st.
Jacob 3. Larick
Services were held April 18th for
Jacob B. Larick, 68, who died April
9TH in his home, 800 Nela View rd.
Burial was in Acacia Park
Cemetery.
For many years Mr.. Larrick op-
.rated the Larick Chevrolet organi-
,ation in Cleveland and for the
past eight years has been head of
4arick Motors, Willoughby, Plym-
,uth and DeSota dealers.
He was a member of the Church
If the Cross, Methodist, and the
Masonic order.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs.
Nellie Larick; two sons, Benjamin
". and Donald; six grandchildren
md two brothers, George and