OBITUARY: Mabel (Lundene) Nelson, 1898-1971, Mitchell County, Iowa



                        Mabel Lundene Nelson

Funeral services for Mrs. Ervin Nelson, 73, of Waterloo will be held
Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Rock Creek Lutheran church
southwest of Osage.  The Rev. Donald L. Berg will be in charge and
burial will be in the Rock Creek cemetery.  Mrs. Nelson died Tuesday
afternoon at a Waterloo hospital following an illness of several weeks.

Mabel Lundene, daughter of Anton A. and Anne Marie Norby Lundene, was
born on a farm southwest of Osage on April 6, 1898.  She was married
on February 25, 1920 to Ervin A. Nelson, also of the Rock Creek community.
They made their home for a number of years on a farm in that area, and
for the past 35 years they have lived in Waterloo.

She is survived by her husband, two daughters and one son: Doris (Mrs.
Bob Clute) of Waterloo, Dorothy (Mrs. Donald Burke) of Rockford, IL and
Alton Nelson of Northridge, CA.  Thirteen grandchildren and two sisters,
Mrs. Cora Larson of Osage and Mrs. Ida Steelman of Yakima, WA, as well
as a number of nieces and nephews in the Osage area also survive.

She was preceded in death by one son, Avery in 1952; her parents; two
brothers, Amos and Hans Lundene; and two sisters, Mrs. Elmer (Alice)
Larson and Mrs. Edwin (Olga) Horgen.


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