Fauna A. Nixon of Brant passed away Thursday evening, July 11, 2024, at home surrounded in the love of her family. She was 81 years old.
A Celebration of Fauna’s Life will he held at 1:00 pm Sunday, September 8, 2024, at the Chesaning American Legion Post Hall, 15053 McKeighan Road, Chesaning. There will be a gathering for family and friends Sunday at the hall from Noon until time of the Celebration service. A dinner will follow.
Fauna was born in Owosso on September 9, 1942, a daughter of Chauncy C. “Bud” and Katherine (Konkus) Walker. Fauna was a longtime resident of Brant. She graduated from Chesaning Union High School in the Class of 1960. She was united in marriage to Gary Clyde Nixon, Sr. on October 29, 1960, at the Brady Center Wesleyan Church in Oakley.
Fauna and her husband, Gary Sr., owned and operated Nixon’s Grocery Store in Brant, beginning on December 26, 1967. They eventually transferred the ownership of their family run store to their son, Gary Jr., in 2015. Fauna never stopped being active behind the scenes with the store’s business.
Fauna had been an active member of the former Brady Center Wesleyan Church until it closed. She then became an active member at the Oakley Community Church. She loved to travel and walk on the beaches and collect shells. She had traveled to the Bahamas, several countries in Europe, and Hawaii and had taken a cruise to Alaska.
Fauna helped design the family home and loved Do-it-Yourself projects. She built the gazebo at the family home and fixed and maintained everything inside and outside the home.
Survivors include her loving children, Kim, Mike, and Karla; her adored grandchildren, Brandon and Rachelle, Lucas and Ashley, Kristel, Trevor, and Erin; great-grandchildren, Shelby, Cash, Chloe, Avery, and Addison; brothers, Edwin and Mary Walker and Phillip and Sally Walker, sisters-in-law, Carol Gasper, Sally Gotham, and Janice and David Shepard; several nieces and nephews; and other loving family and friends. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Gary Nixon, Sr.; her parents, Bud and Katherine Walker; parents-in-law, Clyde and Helen Nixon; a sister, Susan Harter; brothers-in-law, Larry Gotham, Dick Gasper, and Robert Nixon; sister-in-law, Iris Nixon; a son, Gary Nixon Jr.; a daughter-in-law, Julie Nixon; a grandson, Matt Anderson; and a granddaughter, Kinsley Nixon.
Charitable donations may be given in memory of Fauna to the Oakley Community Church, 327 South Main Street, Oakley, MI 48649. You may light a memorial candle or share a memory at misiukfuneralhome.com.
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