OBITUARY: Truly Mae Pike Nelson Hansen, Worth County, Iowa


[Northwood Anchor online - www.northwoodanchor.com - posted Feb. 19, 2002]


                          Truly Mae Nelson Hansen

Funeral service for Truly Mae Nelson Hansen was held Saturday, Jan. 19, at
the Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church, rural Glenville.

The Rev. Dan Baker officiated.  Burial was at Six Mile Grove Lutheran
Cemetery, rural Lyle.

Truly Mae Nelson Hansen, 88, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2002, at the Austin
Medical Center in Austin.

She was born May 27, 1913, to Walter and Isabella (Kvale) Pike in Deer Creek
Township, Worth County, Iowa.  She was confirmed at Deer Creek Lutheran
Church of Carpenter and graduated from Otranto High School of Otranto in
1931.

Truly Pike married Rudolph Nelson in 1933 at the Silver Lake Lutheran Church
of rural Northwood.  They farmed near London until his death in 1964.  She
moved to Albert Lea where she worked at Land O'Lakes and St. John's Lutheran
Home.  She married Art Hansen in 1974 at Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church,
rural Glenville.  They resided in Glenville.  He preceded her in death.  She
moved to Lyle and later to Austin, with St. Mark's Lutheran Home as her last
residence.

She was a member of Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church rural Glenville, and
was active in WELCA and circle.  She enjoyed her family, playing cards,
crocheting, dancing to old time music and listening to country music.
Her grandchildren will remember her for her famous homemade donuts.

She is survived by three sons and one daughter, Walter (Betty) Nelson of
Warner Robbins, GA, Ronald (Marilyn) Nelson of Owatonna, Larry (Paulette)
Nelson of Austin, and Marian (Kenneth) Copa of White Bear Township, MN; 14
grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren; one brother, Harold Pike of Mason
City; three sisters, Dorothy Naber of Mason City, Alice Olson of Northwood,
and Thelma DeLaney of Austin and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, three brothers and
two sisters.




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