Nielsen, Emma Lee (1921-2016)

NIELSEN, BASS, SWANSON, HAUGEN, MILLER

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 6/4/2016 at 15:04:08

Emma Lee Nielsen
March 9, 1921 - May 26, 2016

Emma Lee Nielsen, 95, of Forest City, died on Thursday, May 26, 2016, at her daughter’s home.

Emma Lee Nielsen, a daughter of Earl and Della Bass, was born on March 9, 1921, in Humeston, Iowa. Growing up, she lived with her family in Thornton, Iowa, where she graduated from high school in 1940. On December 14, 1940, she married Martin A. Nielsen at the Danish Lutheran Church in Sioux City, Iowa. They lived in Thornton for a short time before moving to Arizona. In 1957, they returned to Forest City where Emma operated the Forest City Country Club for a time before going to work at the Coast to Coast Store. In 1980, she moved to Mission, Texas, and then she moved back to Forest City in 2013 and resided at Forest Plaza until her final months when she lived with her daughter, Mary Swanson.

She is survived by her children: Michael Nielsen, Linda Haugen, and her husband Ron, Sherrie Miller, and her husband, Mike, and Mary Swanson, and Kevin; sixteen grandchildren; thirty three great-grandchildren; and ten great great-grandchildren; as well as by many nieces, nephews, and a host of friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Martin; and her son, Jim Nielsen; as well as by two brother and two sisters.

Memorial services will be held at 10:30 A.M., Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at the United Methodist Church in Forest City with the Rev. Charles Layton officiating. Burial of cremains will follow at Madison Township Cemetery in Forest City. A gathering of friends and family will be take place one hour before the services at the church on Tuesday. Memorials may be directed to the Hospice of North Iowa and the Forest City United Methodist Church.

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