Nina Lee Wichert Parker

Columbiana - Nina Lee Wichert Parker, 86, passed away on Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at Hospice of the Valley Hospice House in Poland. She was admitted Monday after fighting a nearly two-year battle with ovarian cancer.

A 1958 graduate of Springfield Local High School she was a former Tiger cheerleader and a “Miss Springfield.” Nina attended Youngstown State and worked for Mahoning National Bank and Youngstown Sheet & Tube before marrying and moving to Toledo, Ohio.

Nina continued her working career in Toledo, Zanesville, Cleveland, Berkeley Heights, N.J., Wheaton, Il., Strongsville, as the wife of a mobile corporate communications manager with AT&T.

She loved traveling across America while introducing her son to new life experiences along the way. But not to forsake her early childhood on Lake Evans, she and David built a vacation residence nearby on Lake Tomahawk in Columbiana County in 1973 enabling her new family to maintain a level of contact with her former family.

She is survived by her husband David, of Columbiana; son Matthew and daughter-in-law Nancy, of Lake Tomahawk, Negley. Nina is also survived by nieces and nephews in several cities in Northeastern Ohio as well as by many cousins of her husband’s extended Parker family.

Nina was preceded in death by her father and mother, George A. and Florence Holton Wichert; sister Virgina M. Wichert Stewart; brothers William and Robert Wichert, all growing up on rural Lake Evans in Poland.

A private funeral service will be held for family and close friends followed by a reception.

Memorial contributions would be graciously accepted in her memory by Angels for Animals, 4750 West South Range Rd. Canfield, Ohio 44406.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the Warrick-Kummer-Rettig Funeral Home, Columbiana.

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