MATTIE (AKA MATTA) LOU SEARCY NICHOLS
was born in Ranger on Nov. 7, 1928 to Jesse Perry
Searcy & Gladys Dickson Searcy.
She graduated from Ranger High School in the Class
of 1947. Mattie married Coy Nichols in Jan. of
1950, at Ranger, TX. They had three children and
were divorced in 1970. Her three three children
were Ray Nichols, James Nichols, and one girl
Jeanna Nichols Huey (RHS-1977). She later
married Carl E. Handrick in Eastland County. In
Jan. of 1973, she married Douglas Mayo in Dallas
County; in July of 1977, she married Henry Hancock
in Brazoria County, TX, and also to Charles M. Perry,
Sr., Brazoria. She was a nurse and died on Sept. 14,
2000, at Cleburne, TX.