OBITUARY: Levern H. Nelson 1912-1997, Worth County, Iowa


                          Levern H. Nelson

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[ Mason City Globe Gazette; September 8, 1997 ]

FERTILE -- Leverne Nelson, 85, of 101 Lake St., died Monday
(Sept. 8, 1997) at his home.  Funeral arrangements are incomplete at
Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake.


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[ Mason City Globe Gazette; September 10, 1997 ]

FERTILE -- Levern H. Nelson, 85, of 101 Lake St., died Monday
(Sept. 8, 1997) at his home.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Church of Christ,
Fertile, with the Rev. Dennis Ganz and the Rev. Roger Kampstra officiating.
Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel,
Clear Lake, and one hour before the funeral services at the church.

The family suggests memorials to the Levern H. Nelson Memorial Fund.

Levern was Jan. 29, 1912, in Grant Township, Cerro Gordo County, the son of
George W. And Agnes H. (Rasmussen) Nelson. He attended country school in Grant
Township.

Levern farmed with his father on the family farm. Levern married Reva June
Zirbel on Feb. 20, 1934, at the Lutheran Church in Clear Lake. They farmed
north of Clear Lake until moving into Fertile in 1961, where he has lived
ever since.  Levern enjoyed reading, farming, his John Deere tractors, work
horses, going out to eat and visiting with his friends. He was a former
member of the Fertile Consolidated School Board and 4-H Leader.

Levern is survived by a son, Larry Nelson and his wife, Donna, Hanlontown;
and one daughter, Nancy Ingham and her husband, George, Swaledale; one sister,
Edna Peterson, Fertile; eight grandchildren, Wendy Ingham and her fiance, Ron
Wheeler; Wanda Avery and her husband, Denis; Marcia Ingham; Laura Shropshire and
her husband, Randy; Marie Webb and her husband, Hugh; Christine Fagg and her
husband, Ned; Cheryl Kapka and her husband, Dave; and Lonny Nelson; and 11
great-grandchildren, Jill Avery, Alex Avery, Ryan Shropshire, Amanda Shropshire,
Briana Webb, Houston Webb, Harrison Webb, Courtney Fagg, Audrey Benson, Kelley
Benson and Dean Kapka.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and his wife on Jan. 29, 1987.





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