Nelson, Hilda Louise Hanson (1875-1951)

NELSON, HANSON, WING, HOVE, SONERHOLM

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/26/2017 at 06:55:17

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Monday, December 3, 1951

Mrs. Nelson, 75, Dies in City

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Our Savior's Lutheran church in Stanhope for Mrs. Olaf Nelson, 76, who died at 3:10 p.m. Saturday at the Hamilton county hospital.

Mrs. Nelson, who had been a patient at the hospital for two weeks and two days, had been in failing health since early in 1951.

Preceding the services at Our Savior's Lutheran church will be a brief service at 1:30 at the family home in Stanhope. The Rev. Walter E. Carlson will officiate, with burial being made on the family lot in the Lawn Hill cemetery near Stanhope, with Foster's funeral home in charge.

Hilda Louise Hanson, daughter of Sven and Matilda Hanson, was born August 8, 1875, on a farm near Stanhope. She was reared and educated there and had lived her entire life in the Stanhope community.

She was united in marriage May 2, 1894 to Olaf Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson farmed near Stanhope until 1945, when they retired and moved into Stanhope, their home since.

She is survived by three sons and three daughters: N.H. Nelson of Stanhope; C.O. Nelson of Albuquerque, N.M.; Palmer Nelson of Stanhope; Miss B. Lillian Nelson of Marietta, Ohio; Mrs. Jess (Alice) Wing of Stanhope and Mrs. Lyle (Pearl) Nelson of Watertown, S.D. Also surviving are seven grandchildren; three brothers and two sisters, Olaf Hanson of Boone, Andrew Hanson of Albuquerque, Frank Hanson of Fort Dodge, Mrs. Peter (Emily) Hove of Boone and Mrs. Louis (Olivia) Sonerholm of Blue Earth, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her husband who died in 1947; by two daughters who died in infancy; by her parents, two brothers and two sisters.

Mrs. Nelson was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran church at Stanhope, being active in church work as long as her health permitted.

Mrs. Nelson was a woman of sterling character, whose home and family were her main interests in life. She had made many warm friends during her long residence in the Stanhope community.

[headstone shows Olof Nelson, not Olaf as the obituary reads]