Alvenia Nimmo

Funeral services for Alvenia Bogess Nimmo will be held 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, May 4, 2016 in the First United Methodist Church officiated by Rev. Roland Youngberg. Burial will conclude in the Mound Cemetery in Taloga, OK under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. Alvenia Boggess Nimmo was born on July 16, 1918 in Putnam, Oklahoma to Ranza and Nettie (Pollock) Boggess and passed away Saturday, April 29, 2016 in her Clinton home. The family moved to Taloga, OK when she was four years old where she attended school, graduating from Taloga in 1936. After two years of college she married Charles E. Nimmo in 1938 and later began teaching at Taloga and finished her B.S. degree by correspondence classes, extension classes, and summer school from Southwestern Oklahoma Teachers College, Weatherford, OK in 1949. She later earned her M.S. degree at Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College, Stillwater, OK being the first of eight members of her family to graduate from Oklahoma State University. She later taught at Elk City, Missouri, Clinton, Burns Flat, and was a hostess and dietician at Northern Oklahoma Junior College (now N.O.C). in Tonkawa, OK. She had taught third grade through high school by the time she had finished her teaching career back at Taloga after 39 years in the profession. She was a member of the Dewey County Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Education Association, National Education Association, Delta Kappa Gamma education sorority, Friendly Neighbors Extension Club of Custer County, and with that club had gone to Hawaii, New Zealand, and Canada. Alvenia was also a member of the Oklahoma Mineral Owners Association, Clinton B.P.W., DAR, Custer County Retired Teachers Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, and Country Women of the World serving in many capacities within these organizations. She was inducted into the Dewey County Hall of Fame in 1994. Alvenia served on the Custer County Election Board for 24 years. With the Country Women of the World organization, Alvenia traveled to many countries, which included Ireland, New Zealand, Holland, Australia, Canada, and Hawaii. She had also visited Germany, China, Singapore, and numerous time to Mexico. She really liked to travel! Alvenia loved the land, ranching and working with cattle, raising Scottish Terriers, sewing, gardening, and telling her children "how the cow ate the cabbage" until she died. Alvenia was very proud of her family and their accomplishments. Several unusual things have happened in the later years of her life that could have been more serious than they actually were making her believe there must be a guardian angel watching over her. In 1986 and again in 1991, her creek overflowed flooding her garage, den and basement. In 1987, her electric range shorted, causing a fire that smoked the entire interior of her house requiring complete redecorating. She received injuries to her hand and eyes while working with cattle. In another incident, Alvenia was abducted from her home and asked to drive the assailant to his broken-down car. She escaped from her car and her car and check book were stolen after which several checks were forged. The money was replaced, her car was located with no damage to it, and she was not harmed. Two highlights that pleased her were being inducted into the Dewey County Hall of Fame in 1994 and being honored by the Oklahoma Blue Cross & Blue Shield at the age of 82 as the 2000 Ageless Hero Winner for Western Oklahoma in the category of Vigor and Vitality. She is survived by her children Charles Cary Nimmo and wife, Linda, Weatherford, Sherry Lynn Jarvis, Clinton, her grandchildren Christopher Nimmo Jarvis, and wife Christy, Yukon, and Michelle Lynn Jarvis of Edmond and by her great-grandchildren, Denise Renee Jarvis, Wichita, KS, Ryan David Briscoe and Ashlynn Nicole Briscoe, both of Edmond, her sister Mary Ann Boggess, Walker, MO, and her brother, Ranza Boggess, Pagosa Springs, CO. Alvenia is also survived by her nieces, Bonnie Schomp, and Wayne Smith, Earlsboro, OK, DaLynne Fischer, and husband Dan Oklahoma City, and Jacqueline Gallery, and husband, Bill, Wann, OK and their children. She is preceded in death by her parents and her sister Joy J. Schomp. We would like to add a special thanks to her care-giver Frances Weil.