A Final, Loving Good-Bye for Walter Nicholls
By • July 16, 2014 0 717
A final good-bye was held for writer Walter Nicholls at the Friends Meeting House on Florida Avenue, NW, July 11.
Nicholls wrote “What’s Cooking, Neighbor?” for The Georgetowner.
Friends, colleagues and family sat in quiet peace in the Quaker structure as the morning sun showed a beautiful day, something Nicholls would like, someone said. Friends rose and spoke of their time with him — whether about his adventures or the fact that he had led nine lives — or his time in D.C., Virginia or California. His neighbors on Q Street, Katie and Collin Lawson, were also on hand.
An oft quoted line by Nicholls was “Give it a try,” pertaining to some strange food, no doubt. The same time might be said of his energy, childlike wonder and life.
Stephen Bennett, Nancy McKeon, Bonnie Kogod and Ed Senn coordinated the sweet, heartfelt farewell for their friend.
Shakespeare’s somber Sonnet 30 was invoked:
“… But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restor’d and sorrows end.”
