Donald F. Nickman

Donald"Don" F. Nickman, 80, Park City, Utah, formerly of Pleasanton, died Monday June 25, 2012 at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mass of Christian Burial will be Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Pleasanton with Fr. Marty Egging officiating. Burial will be at the St, Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Pleasanton. Military rites will be provided at the grave by the U.S. Navy Funeral Honors Team, and the Pleasanton American Legion and V.F.W. A wake service will be Monday, July 2, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Pleasanton. Visitation will be Monday from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church and one hour prior to the service on Tuesday. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Huntsman Cancer Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. A message of condolence, tribute or memory can be left at www.hlmkfuneral.com Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services in Kearney are in charge of arrangements. Don Nickman, 80, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on June 25, 2012, at Huntsman Cancer Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Don was born September 16, 1931, to John and Monica Nickman in Pleasanton, Nebraska. After graduating from Pleasanton High School in 1949, Don joined the Navy, serving aboard the USS Lake Champlain (CVA 39) with honorable discharge (1950 1954). He then attended the University of Nebraska, graduating with distinction in 1958 while working in the Omaha stockyards to put himself through school. In 1961, he graduated cum laude from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and was inducted into the medical honorary society Alpha Omega Alpha. After completing an internship at Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital in Omaha, he moved to Denver, Colorado, and was in general practice until 1969. In 1972, he completed a radiology residency at the University of Colorado and moved to Butte, Montana, becoming board certified by the American Board of Radiology in 1974. In 1975, he moved to Pocatello, Idaho, and in 1976, moved to Helena, Montana, where he worked until his retirement in 1989. After retirement, Don fished the Little Blackfoot River nearly every day. In 2004, he relocated to Park City, Utah, to be closer to family. Don was married in 1956 to Marilyn Jane Schmidt of Hildreth, Nebraska. She and Don had 3 children: Nancy, Jim & Steve. They divorced in 1971, and she passed on in 1982. Don remarried in 1975 and later divorced. Don was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fly fishing, upland bird and big game hunting. He also enjoyed tying flies and carving birds. Don taught all of his children to downhill ski and volunteered for many years with Park City Mountain Resort as a race volunteer. One of Don’s fondest activities was serving with the Race Secretariat as a volunteer for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics. Don was preceded in death by his parents and two of his brothers – Bob and Norman. He is survived by his sister Joanna Baciocco (Gene, Atherton, California), daughter Nancy (Rosanne Ruiz, Park City, Utah), and sons Jim (Jean and grandchildren Beth, Kyle & Noah, Lino Lakes, Minnesota) and Steve (grandchildren Zachary & Tucker, Salt Lake City, Utah). With heartfelt gratitude, the family wishes to thank Dr. Mary Parsons (University of Utah, Redstone Clinic), Dr. James Kushner and Dr. Martha Glenn, Debbi Green, RN and Mary Vietti, RN, of Huntsman Cancer Hospital for many years of excellent and compassionate medical care. PDF Printable Version

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Donald F. Nickman

September 16, 1931 - June 25, 2012