Nelson, Jean P. - 1916-2009

FISHER, IMM, NELSON, PAGE, PERKINS

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 3/7/2009 at 08:51:40

Jean Page Nelson, 92, of Newton died Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, at her home in Park Centre in Newton.
A Celebration of Life Service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 7, 2009, at the First Presbyterian Church in Newton with the Rev. Tiare Mathison officiating.
The family will greet friends during a lunch and fellowship time in the church dining room following the service. Burial will be at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Eden Prairie, Minn., at a later date.
Memorials to First Presbyterian Church, Centre for the Arts and Artists or the Jasper County Concert Association may be left at the Wallace Family Funeral Home & Crematory or at the church on the morning of the service.
The daughter of Clarence Percival and Winifred May (Fisher) Page, she was born Margaret Jean Page on Dec. 27, 1916, in Eden Prairie, Minn. She was a graduate of Eden Prairie High School in 1934 in Eden Prairie, Minn., and on July 5, 1941, she was united in marriage to Murray B. Nelson in Eden Prairie, Minn.
Jean was a homemaker and had worked for the Honeywell Corporation in Minneapolis, Minn., for several years after she graduated from high school. Jean was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church, where she was a member of the choir, P.E.O. Chapter LC, Book Club, In Persons and a local swing choir from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. She was a member of the Newton Library Board from 1968 to 1979. Jean enjoyed singing and listening to music, reading, traveling, playing bridge, cooking and entertaining. She had lived in Newton since 1942.
Survivors include her brother-in-law, Bradley Nelson; a sister-in-law, Grace Perkins Page; many nieces and nephews; and all her friends and neighbors, including many at Park Centre.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Murray, in 1995; three brothers, Clarence Raines Page and Charles Wesley Page; a brother in infancy; and two sisters, Winifred Grace Page (as a child) and Edith Lenore (Page) Imm.
Source: Newton(IA) Daily News; Wednesday, March 4, 2009