Pauline Nelson, 99

Pauline Nelson, 99, of Blair, died April 22, 2009, in Omaha.

Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, April 25, at St, Francis Borgia Catholic Church in Blair. Interment will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Blair.

Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 24, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home with a rosary at 7 p.m.

A full obituary will be available in next week’s newspaper.

Enterprise 1 May 2009

Pauline Nelson, 99

Former Blair resident Pauline Nelson, 99, died Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at Brighton Garden Home in Omaha.

Funeral services were held on April 25.

Pauline E. Mara was born Dec. 16, 1909, in Ceresco, to John and Mary (Schafer) Mara. She attended school in Ceresco.

She married Herbert Nelson on June 19, 1935. The couple moved to Herman and then to Blair in 1939.

Mrs. Nelson’s husband operated the Hancock Farm Equipment business until his death.

In 2000, Mrs. Nelson moved to the Brighton Garden Home and resided there until her death.

She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Michael and Anne Nelson of Sioux City, Iowa, Robert and Rose Nelson of Omaha; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; sister Hazel Stich of Sun City, Ariz., three sisters-in-law.

She was preceded in death by her husband and three brothers.

Omaha World Herald 24 Apr 2009

Nelson, Pauline E.

Age 99

Omaha. Survived by sons, Michael and Anne Nelson of Sioux City, IA, Robert and Rose Nelson of Omaha; sister, Hazel Stich of Sun City, AZ; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. VISITATION will begin at 3pm Friday, with Rosary at 7pm at the funeral home. SERVICES will be at 10am Saturday at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church in Blair. Burial in Holy Cross Cemetery in Blair.

CAMPBELL-AMAN FUNERAL HOME Blair, NE 402-426-2191

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

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