OBITUARY: H.B. Nickerson, 1909-1996, Mitchell County, Iowa

[ From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Jan. 15, 1996 ]
                                                          



                           H.B. Nickerson

ST. ANSGAR--H.B. Nickerson, 86, of St. Ansgar, died Saturday (January
13, 1996) at the Stacyville Community Nursing Home.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the United
Methodist Church, St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Ted W. Stowers officiating.
Burial will be in Newburg Cemetery, Carpenter.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Schroeder and Sites
Funeral Home, 207 S. School St., St. Ansgar, and prior to service
time Tuesday at the church.

Memorials may be given in care of the Alzheimer's Research Fund,
Marshfield, Wis.

H.B. Nickerson was born Aug. 11, 1909, in Marshall County, a
son of William and Vivian May (Poland) Nickerson.  He married
Rose Gerlach on Feb. 19, 1930, on the Gerlach farm southeast
of Carpenter.  They lived in eastern Iowa in the Anamosa area
working at various logging camps, returning to Mitchell County
in 1935.  He worked as a cream hauler and then purchased a farm
east of St. Ansgar where he spent most of his life.  He started
Nickerson Farm Seeds in 1966 which he sold to Max Patterson in
1976 when he retired and moved to Osage.

He served the community through active roles in the Soil Conservation
Commission, Farm Bureau and St. Ansgar School Board, as well as
church activities.

Survivors include his wife, Rose Nickerson of St. Ansgar; two
daughters, Joanne Borchardt, Holland, and Mary Conzemius, St.
Paul, Minn.; three sons, Verle Nickerson, Osage, Gene Nickerson,
Phoenix, Ariz., and H. James Nickerson, Marshfield, Wis.; one
sister, Ruth Roehr, Carpenter; and 21 grandchildren and 30 great-
grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers.



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