500 colleagues, friends celebrate senator, UA prof in Phoenix
PHOENIX - More than 500 colleagues, friends and family turned out at the State Capitol yesterday for a memorial service to honor Sen. Andy Nichols, a legislative champion for public health and long-time University of Arizona professor.
"We will be forever indebted to Sen. Nichols," said Gov. Jane Hull. "He was a man who truly left this world having given more than he took."
Nichols, a Tucson Democrat, died Thursday after collapsing in his Phoenix office. He was 64.
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