Obituary Record

Swan Nelson
Died on 3/26/1949
Buried in Blair Cemetery

31 Mar., 1949 - The Enterprise

SWAN NELSON RITES MARCH 29TH

Mr. Swan Nelson was born in Sweden on July 10th, 1878, and passed away in the Blair Hospital on March 26 at the age of seventy years. He came to the United States in 1901 and to Blair in 1908 where he settled on a farm northwest of the city which has been his home since.

The funeral service was held in the Bendorf Funeral Home on March 29, with a large number of neighbors and friends in attendance, Rev. H. C. Jorgensen of the First Lutheran Church officiating. Burial was made in the Blair cemetery.

Mr. Nelson is survived by a sister in Omaha, Mrs. Ellen Freeberg, by three sisters and brothers in Sweden, and by several nieces and nephews.

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

Find a Grave Memorial #109839927

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 3/31/1949


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