Ms. Mary Wesley Nicholson Flanagan, age 89, of Decatur and later Williamson, passed away December 31, 2016, at Brightmoor Hospice. She was born in Atlanta, daughter of the late James Wesley Nicholson and Sara Love McDonald Nicholson. Mary spent many years working at her parent’s store, J.W. Nicholson's Service Station, on Whiteford Avenue in Atlanta. She married Norman Wise Flanagan, a Lieutenant for the city of Atlanta Police Department, and raised two daughters. She loved to sew, and she sewed all her daughters’ clothes when they were young. She continued to sew until her eyesight deteriorated. Mary also had a green thumb and could make even the weakest plants thrive. Her manicured yard was her passion, and she cut her own grass until she was about eighty-four years old.
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