Obit for NELSON, Ruth M. (Babcock) (b.1900 d.1997), Dodge Co., MN

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Ruth M. Nelson -- Rochester

08/22/1997



Ruth M. Nelson -- Rochester



The funeral for Ruth M. Nelson will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Vine Funeral 

Home Chapel with the Rev. Larry Tantow, chaplain at Samaritan Bethany 

officiating. Burial will be in Old Concord Cemetery at West Concord.



Mrs. Nelson, 96, a longtime Rochester homemaker, died this morning (Aug. 

22, 1997) at Samaritan Bethany Home on Eighth where she had resided three 

years.



Ruth M. Babcock was born Sept. 25, 1900, in West Concord, graduated from 

West Concord High school in 1917 and after attending normal school in 

Mantorville taught in Sargeant-Waltham area country schools until her 

marriage. On Nov. 25, 1925, she married Martin A. Nelson in Red Wing. 

They lived in West Concord until 1939 and then in Byron until moving to 

Rochester in 1945. Her husband was a mechanic at Postier & Eggers and 

International Truck in Rochester. He died May 5, 1980.



Survivors include a son, Donald of Byron; seven grandchildren; 14 great-

grandchildren; and a sister, Etta Uptagraf of Hayfield. She was preceded 

in death by a son, a grandson, three brothers and five sisters.



Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.



Memorials are suggested to Samaritan Bethany Foundation.





Father: Birdge L. BABCOCK b: 18 DEC 1864 

Mother: Sarah FOGELSON b: 17 AUG 1868



Marriage 1 Martin NELSON b: 1899 

* Married: 25 NOV 1925 in Red Wing, MN

Children 

1. Donald NELSON 

2. Boy NELSON



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