Mike Nelsen, 71, is Buried

KENNARD EX-FARMER, BORN THERE IN 1876, SUCCUMBED AT HOME

Victim of a stroke Saturday, Mike Nelsen, 71, retired Washington County farmer, died Monday morning at his home in Kennard. He had been in ill health two years.

Funeral services with arrangements in charge of the Bendorf Funeral Home were held at the Kennard Lutheran Church Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. P. L. Thorslev was in charge and burial was in Kennard Cemetery.

Mr. Nelsen was born July 31, 1876, on a farm three miles northwest of Kennard, and except for four years at Holyoke, Colo. had spent his entire life in this county. He and Pauline Rosenbaum of Kennard were married Oct. 10, 1900.

Mr. Nelsen was baptized and confirmed in the Kennard Lutheran Church.

Surviving him are his wife, Pauline; three daughters, Mrs. Bert Hansen (Frieda) of Kennard, Miss Bernice Nelsen of Omaha and Mrs. Verona Melton of Blair; two sons, Leland of Holyoke, Colo., and Melvin of Omaha; eight grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. W. B. Rosenbaum of Kennard; and one brother, Nels Nelsen of Omaha.

#2-8 Apr., 1948 - The Enterprise

MIKE NELSEN RITES TUESDAY

Mike Nelsen of Kennard died at his home in that village last Monday at 10 a.m. following an illness of several weeks’ duration. He was born on a farm northwest of Kennard on July 31, 1876 and would have been 72 year of age at his next birthday.

He was married to Miss Pauline Rosenbaum on October 10, 1900, and to them five children were born, two sons and three daughters. The daughters are Mrs. Bert Hansen of Kennard, Miss Bernice Nelsen of Omaha and Mrs. Vernon Nelsen of Blair. The sons are Melvin Nelsen of Omaha and Leland of Holyoke, Colorado and these, with the devoted wife and mother and eight grandchildren, are left to mourn his passing.

With the exception of four years spent in Holyoke, Colorado, his entire life was spent in the vicinity of Kennard, and his old neighbors and friends all held him in the highest esteem and will miss his companionship.

He was a member of the Lutheran church and his life was proof that he lived the part.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the Kennard Lutheran church with Rev. P. L. Thorslev officiating and under the supervision of Chris K. Bendorf, Mortician, interment was made in the Kennard cemetery.

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

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