OBITUARY: Victor Nehls, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted Oct. 2, 2001]



                    Victor Nehls [1918-2001]
     
Funeral services were held Wednesday, October 3, 2001, 1:30 p.m at
Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, for Victor Nehls, age 82, of Osage,
with Father Philip Recker of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Osage, officiating.
Interment will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Osage.  Victor died Monday,
October 1, 2001 at the Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa in Mason City.

Victor was born Nov. 17, 1918 near Marble Rock, Floyd County, the son of
Arthur and Anna (Reis) Nehls. He married Lorraine Cary in 1940 and they lived
near Charles City later moving to Osage. Lorraine died in 1977. Later he
married Katherine (Mathiesen) Jeffries in 1980 and they lived in Osage.
Katherine died in 1992.

He operated the Monarch Feed Mill in Osage. He later worked for L.R. Falk
Construction in St. Ansgar until his retirement. 

Victor enjoyed hunting, fishing and was an avid sports fan, following Osage
High School, the Minnesota Hawkeyes and Iowa Hawkeyes.

Preceding him in death were his parents; two wives, Lorraine and Katherine;
one brother, Raymond Nehls.

Those that survive him include two sons, Gary Nehls and wife, Linda of Shawnee,
KS and children, Tara Walker and her children Chelsea and Logan, and Christopher
Nehls and son Matthew; Michael Nehls of Osage and his children, Timothy and
Hope; one step-son, Rex Jeffries of Omaha, NB; one sister, Dorothy Wright of
Charles City; one brother, Clair Nehls of Charles City; numerous nieces and
nephews.






Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson; <kermit-k@juno.com>
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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