Sandra Virginia Nichols, 67, Hopedale, died Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 in Acuity Specialty Hospital, Steubenville after a long illness. She was born in Bristol, Virginia on August 5, 1944, the daughter of the late Benjamin and Virginia Leonard Gill.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Services will be on Friday, December 16,2011 at 11 a.m. at the Blackburn Funeral Home, Hopedale with the Rev. William Westling officiating. Burial will follow at Rankin Cemetery.

A full obituary will appear in the next print edition of the Harrison News-Herald.