WA: "the world is a lesser place without him"

From the P-I:

Robert Nickels, 1925-2007: Mayor's father defended juveniles in court

From the Seattle Times:

Mayor's father, 81, was advocate for children

While he is now best known as father of Mayor Greg Nickels, Bob Nickels established himself decades ago as a children's advocate and elder statesman in Seattle's legal community. Robert Charles Nickels, whom all knew as Bob, started the region's first public-defenders' group for low-income children in 1976. He named it SCRAP, both for the Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons, and to dash society's belief that those kids were scrap...