Obit for Richard Eugene Nizol

September 8, 1930 to December 12, 2012

Richard (Dick) Eugene Nizol, age 82 of Onalaska, Texas, was born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 8, 1930, to parents, Walter Nizol and Helen Barowski Nizol. He died at his home on December 12, 2012, in Onalaska, Texas.

Dick was a veteran, serving in the United States Navy during the Korean war. He worked for Grumman in New York and was transferred to League City, Texas to work on the Apollo Space Program with Grumman Aerospace, where he raised his family. In later years, he worked for Baker Hughes Corp., as a manufacturing engineer, until he retired to Onalaska in December 1997. He was an avid fisherman, and loved his church home of St. Luke' Episcopal, where he was an active member. Dick was also a member of the American Legion Post #291 in San Leon, Texas.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Walter Nizol and Helen Barowski Nizol; and three brothers, George Nizol, Raymond Nizol and Sam Nizol. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Annamarie Nizol; children, Kim Nizol, Richard P. Nizol and his wife, Ruth, and Karen Smith and her husband, Alan; grandchildren, Jessica Mutz and her husband, Jonathan, Kyle Smith, Jennifer Chacon and her husband, Alex and Collin Smith; and a niece, Judy Papoulos in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

A Celebration of Life will be held at St. Luke' Episcopal Church in Livingston, Texas, on Saturday, December 22, 2012, at 11:00 AM.

Donations to the American Cancer Society are requested in lieu of flowers.

Cochran Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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