God saw his eyes were getting tired, so on September 6, 2023 He reached down, whispered and said; it's time to come home to rest.  Dwight passed away peacefully at his home in Ashland, Virginia surrounded by his wife and daughter.  Dwight was the third child born on June 8, 1950 to Bertha H. Nicholas and the late Clarence E. Nicholas Sr. in Hanover County, Virginia.

He leaves to cherish his memory; his loving, caring, and devoted wife of 35 years Teresa G. Nicholas; daughters, Tracey Nicholas (Langston "JC"), Fawn Dendy (Alonzo), Ebony Anderson, Katisha George; grandchildren, Llorel Eldridge, Grace, Joy and Noelle Dendy, Briana Stokes-Miller (TaVarius), and Justin George; great-grandchildren, Julian and Tristan Williams and Tylan Miller; mother, Bertha Nicholas; mother-in-law, Frances George; brother, David Nicholas (Sandra); sisters, Helen Derricott, Frances Kenney, Eloise Miller, LaVinia Morris (Pendleton) and Virginia Woodson; sisters-in-law, Alease Nicholas, Virginia Mae Nicholas, Francine Keys (Melvin), Wanda Draper (Darnell), and Jaqueline Edwards (Ronald); brothers-in-law, Anthony and Brian George; aunts, Vivian Taylor, Sheila Anderson and F. Fay Nicholas; uncles, John Nicholas, Sr. (Patty) and David Winston, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, relatives and friends among them his special friends, Haywood Watson, Edward Washington, and John Wyatt and his beloved granddog Kobe.