Nels Mathew Volding 1881-1933

VOLDING, NELSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 7/3/2010 at 22:10:57

Obituary of Nels M. Volding
Nels M. Volding was born in Waukon, Iowa, February 7, 1881. At an early age he moved with his people to El Camp, Texas, where he resided until twenty years of age, when he again returned to the state of his birth. In 1905 he was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Nelson. They had two children, Evelyn Inez, who died in infancy, and Ethlyn, who with her mother, survives him.

In his twenty-fifth year he entered the railway service, in which he remained constantly since.

He is survived by his mother, four brothers and two sisters, who reside in Texas and his wife and daughter, Ethlyn.

Funeral services were held at the Cobb Phelps Funeral Chapel in Spencer at 10:30 Tuesday morning and at the Presbyterian church at Estherville at two-thirty with Rev. A. G. Bailey in charge. The relatives from Texas did not arrive until too late for the services on Tuesday so Mr. Volding’s body was not interred until Wednesday afternoon when it was laid to its final resting place in Oak Hill Cemetery, following a short prayer service at one o’clock in charge of Rev. A. G. Bailey at the Mahlum & Anderson funeral chapel.

The following from out of the city were here for the funeral services:

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nygaard, El Campo, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Nygaard, Bay City, Texas; Otto Volding, El Campo, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Benson and family, Olof Benson, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Nelson, Mrs. Amanda Berlin and family, Murrel Mikkelson, Mildred Buelemer, Patronilla Stoltherr, Edna Isackson, Olive Mullemer, Gibbons, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Anderson and family, O. P. Anderson, Lafayette, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Nelson and family, Eagle Grove; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Nelson and family, Superior; Mrs. Carl Peterson, Herman Peterson, Waukon; Mr. and Mrs. Alf Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peterson, Mrs. Frances Mayhew, Sherrard, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson, Albert City; Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Okerberg, Mrs. A. Turnwall, Mrs. Frank Johnson, Frank Davis, Marathon, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Royce Gilbert, Milford; Mrs. Frank Kirk and Frances, Dalhart, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Clarke, Lester Morris, Emmetsburg; Mrs. Mack, Mrs. Tortipes, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Estes, and Mrs. Baylon, Spencer, Iowa. (Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, IA, May 24, 1933)