OBITUARY: Mary "Louise" Nelson, 1914-2004, Worth Co., Iowa

[Adapted from Northwood Anchor online, June 16, 2004 ]




                         Mary "Louise" Nelson

Mary "Louise" Nelson, 90, Northwood, Iowa, died Friday, June 11, 2004
at the Lutheran Retirement Home following a long illness. Memorial
Services will on Saturday, June 19, at Northwood United Baptist
Church, with inurnment at State Line Cemetery.  The Rev. Richard
Jensen will officiate.

Survivors include a daughter, Jean Arrett and husband Robert of
Northwood; two granddaughters, Teresa Stehn and husband Rodney
of Northwood and Mary Branstad and husband Brian of Kensett, Iowa;
seven great-grandchildren, Danielle Taylor, Joshua Walker, Michael
Walker, Rachel Taylor, A.J. Branstad, Brody Branstad, and Cassidy
Stehn; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband Vernon C. Nelson in 1997,
her parents Ole and Leta (Davis) Olson, two brothers, Robert Olson
and Ben Olson, and two sisters, Matilda Broderson and Julia Tenner.

Mary was born May 8, 1914 in Boneita Springs, South Dakota, and was
married for 56 years to Vernon C. Nelson on February 1, 1941 in
Sturgis, South Dakota.  She was baptized and confirmed at the Elm
Springs Church in South Dakota. After they were married they moved
to a farm in Hutchinson, Minnesota, and then again to Biscay where
they lived for 50 years before moving to Northwood.

Mary was a member of the McLeod Country Women's Extension Club,
and was very involved in her church in Hutchinson, Minnesota.

Arrangements by the Cremation Society of Eastern Iowa.


     Copyright 2004, K. L. Kittleson