Bruce Carl Nickerson
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Bruce Carl Nickerson was born on November 17th, 1963 in Concord,New Hampshire to Carl and Nancy Nickerson.
He is survived by both his parents Carl (Barabra) and Nancy (Follasbee) Kaiser; wife, Sheila (Bennett); step-daughters, Veronica Bennett (Lee Estep) and Jessica Bennett, (Cristian Poli); granddaughter, Daniella Poli; son, Adrik Nickerson (Katherine); daughter, Lydia Altobilis (Tony); sister, Carla Pierson (Richard); nieces, Monica, Valerie, and Jill; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins in the New Hampshire area.
He was raised in East Hampton, Connecticut by Lake Pocotogpaug where he made a life long friendship with the families of Erl Slayton and Rich Dufour and David and Mark Cyr and Marty and Greg Scoville and told us many hair-raising stories of all the things he did together with this gang of boys at the lake every summer.
Bruce joined the Army as soon as he turned 18 and was stationed in Nurenburg, Germany for 2 years. He met an incredible man named Jerry Taylor in the barracks, who gave him a bible and Bruce read it and believed on the name of Jesus and became an avid bible student and started witnessing to people in the barracks.
He married another Army employee named Dina Case in 1983 and his son was born on July 12, 1984. He reported they got no sleep for the next 2 years. They moved back to the states and a second child was born on June 20, 1989 that kept Bruce watching Beauty and the Beast every day for the next 18 years.
He worked many different jobs as he could figure out anything. He learned to make eye glasses at Pearl Vision, had a degree in heating and air conditioning and always had a part time job delivering newspapers. He then moved to apartment maintenance in Missouri when he was offered a job in 2006.
He met Sheila Bennett online at Christian Mingle dating service that his daughter Lydia had signed him up for. It was a 82% personality match and they were married 6 weeks later much to the astonishment of friends and family.
Bruces greatest joy in life was reading the bible and finding new truths that he hadn’t seen before. The second joy was riding his motorcycle, the latest being a 2018 Can-Am Spyder.
He enjoyed sharing his faith whenever possible with his co-workers, his lastest job of 11 years was at North Kansas City beverage company where he worked as their computer IT person and later added the job of forecasting to his duties which he enjoyed very much.
He enjoyed cooking and was always finding new recipes to share with his vegetarian sister, Carla, and learning to make keto type food for his wife so they could lose weight together but still enjoy eating.
Bruce wrote a book that he thought would help new Christians get started on their walk with Christ and was eager to print it out at his cost and share with everybody. His office will generously be printing out copies and they will be available at the service to take and read and truly get an insight to Bruce.
He will be missed tremendously, but we are all filled with joy knowing he is with our Lord and Savior and getting answers to all the questions he ever had.
I worked with Bruce for a short time while I was with Zen Group, I consider him a friend, mentor & role model. I will never forget the cable run jobs we did together, the crawling through church rafters in the dark, wiring up Ethernet in the lake so a customer could have WiFi on their dock and that terrible terrible little Saturn he sometimes drove. Watching that little thing slam itself into 3rd gear and chirp the tires was hilarious every time and I will never forget those antics we had. I’ll miss you Bruce, you were pretty instrumental in molding the person I am today.
I worked with Bruce when I was at ZenGroup as well. Bruce was a great guy and we had some fun times working together. I remember when he came in to work at the office his one request was to have a big trackball instead of a mouse which we all found funny. I didn’t even know he had served in the Army until I enlisted in the Navy in 2018. At that point I got to hear all sorts of stories from his service. He imparted quite a bit of wisdom on me when we worked together, a lot of which might have gone over my head as a 19 year old, but I still recall it in every day life. In my first month on the job he told me something along the lines of “You won’t get very far in your career saying ‘I told you so’”. That lesson alone has helped me in many situations, and he was right. Bruce has left a positive influence on all of us and he will be missed dearly.