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NELSON, Hannah Clara (Borlaug) 1904-2003

NELSON, SWENSON, BORLAUG

Posted By: Kermit Kittleson
Date: 9/24/2011 at 23:05:44

Hanna Nelson

Funeral services for Hanna Nelson, formerly of Elma, were held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 3 at Parrott & Wood Chapel of Memories in Waterloo.

Interment was in Garden of Memories in Waterloo.

Hanna, 99, died Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at Allen Memorial Hospital of natural causes. She was a resident at the Ravenwood Nursing Home since April of 2002.

Hanna Clara Nelson was born November 22, 1904 in Howard County near Lawler, the daughter of Thomas and Johanne (Swenson) Borlaug. She received her education in country school and then worked at home.

On August 29, 1935 she married Norman J. Nelson at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They moved to the Nelson family farm near Elma. She worked on the farm and was a homemaker.

Hanna loved to garden and enjoyed her flowers. She was a member of the Saude Evangelical Lutheran Church.

She is survived by two daughters: Sigrid Joanne Lane of Waterloo and Hazel Braniger of Elma; two grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three step grandchildren; and several step great-grandchildren.

Hanna was preceded in death by her husband Norman on February 29, 1996; five brothers: Karl, Simon, Olis, Thomas, and Vilmar; and four sisters: Selva and Anne Borlaug, Sina Watson, and one in infancy.

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