10/14/02 – 5/13/97

Helen Marie Nelson, 94 of Battle Creek, Iowa, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997 at Willow Dale Care Center in Battle Creek.

Services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Battle Creek. Rev. Benjamin Ray will officiate. Burial will be in the Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Barbara Klanderud of Blair is her daughter.

Nelson was born Oct. 14, 1902 in Rising City, Nebr., to Oscar I. and Julia (Morgan) Bond. She attended school and graduated from Hartington, Nebr., High School. She attended Wayne State Teacher’s College and taught for many years. On April 26, 1923, she married D. Laurence Nelson. They lived in the Hartington area until 1945 when they moved to Iowa.

She was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Battle Creek; the Ladies Aide; Ladies Country Club and the Battle Creek Senior Citizens.

She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, David and Jewell Nelson of Bellevue, Nebr.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Wendell Klanderud of Blair and H. Sue and Lyle Kapaska of Sac City, Iowa; 10 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grand-child.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Laurence on Oct. 29, 1973; one grand-child, Bruce Klanderud and one brother, Art Bond.

Memorials may be given to First Presbyterian Church of Battle Creek, Willow Dale Care Center or the Battle Creek Senior Citizens Center.

Christensen-Ciha Funeral Homes in Ida Grove, Iowa is in charge of arrangements.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~