Frank H & Ethel Nissen GoBell

GOBELL NISSON ELLINGSON LAWRENSEN

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Date: 9/7/2010 at 14:54:24

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Frank H and Ethel Nissen GoBell
By Naida G Koehler

Frank Henry GoBell, the eldest child of Nelson Frank and Nellie Ellingson GoBell was born March 8, 1898, at Vermillion, South Dakota. On August 12, 1918, he was united in marriage to Ethel Leona Nissen, also of Vermillion.

Ethel, born June 9, 1900, at Beresford, South Dakota, was the second of two children born to Nickolai Christian Nissen and Christiana Andercina Lawrensen-Nissen, better remembered in later years as Mrs Jane Nissen-Nelson of Vermillion.

Both Frank and Ethel were descendants of pioneer settlers in Clay County, South Daktoa, who had settled there twenty-three years before South Dakota entered the Union as a state. Frank’s grandparents were Sjur and Martha Olson Ellingson; immigrants form Sogndal and Nornes, Norum, Norway; and Cordelia A King-GoBell-McCapes born near Montreal, Canada, and Nelson Baptiste GoBell born in Vermont. The latter couple had come south and west with their parents and had settled in eastern Iowa before moving on to South Dakota. Several years after the death of Nelson GoBell, Cordelia remarried to Dr Marvin McCapes, long time veterinarian at Vermillion.

Ethel’s father, her grandparents, Lawrence Jacob Lorenzen and Maren Nielsen, and her mother and step-father, Christine Nielsen-Hansen and Christian Hansen all emigrated from southern Jutland and the island Langland, Denmark. Most of the families were Lutheran, and Frank and Ethel also raised their family in the Lutheran faith.

Frank was employed nearly forty-four years with Fullerton Lumber Company before his retirement in 1963, serving in their yards at Vermillion, Platte, and Yankton, South Dakota; and Oto, Anthon and Sioux City, Iowa.

Both were active in civic and social organizations most of their lives. Frank served his communities as school board director and town clerk for many years. He was honored as 50-year member of the Masonic Lodge, Order of Eastern Star, Modern Woodman Society and was a 49-year mmber of the Royal Arch Masonic organization. Also through his life he took an active interest in his church.

Ethel was also a member of the OES, a Past Noble Grand of the Rebekah Lodge in Oto, the Women’s Benefit Association, Royal Neighbors, the Federated Women’s Clubs, and she too was very active in her church work.

Ethel died with heart failure, February 17, 1961, in Anthon, and Frank died in Alta, Iowa, April 2, 1975, with Cancer. Both are buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa.

Frank and Emma Mae Weathers Jackson were married in Oto, July 14, 1962, and she died June 24, 1972, at Valley View Nursing Home, Correctionville, Iowa. She was laid to rest with her first husband, Floyd Jackson and infant daughter, Floydene, in the Peiro Cemetery southwest of Anthon.

Frank and Hazel Blenderman Burke were wed August 6, 1973, at Battle Creek, Iowa. She died January 30, 1979, and is buried at Oak Hill Cemetey at Anthon by her first husband, James Burke.

Frank and Ethel GoBell had two children. Their daughter, Naida Leone was born August 29, 1920, in Vermillion. She and Elmer George Koehler, eldest child of Johann Nickol and Katharina Soellner Koehler of Anthon, were married October 20, 1940, in Vermillion and presently reside at Alta, Iowa.

The GoBell’s son, Frank Nolan, was born also at Vermillion, September 29, 1922. On January 27, 1947, he and Maxie Virginia Hon-Allison of Colorado Springs, Colorado, were married at Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he was stationed with the United States Air Force. They had three children: 1-Marsha Ann, born December 5, 1947. She and Sgt Roy Bewley of Pottsville, Arkansas, were married April 16. 1973. Their son, Aaron Bryce Bewley was born July 10, 1974. Their home is near London, Arkansas.

2-Frank Alan, born February 14, 1959, was married, May 15, 1981, to Cindy Lou Bata, of Russelville, Arkansas. They resided at Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she is nursing in the VA Hospital and Frank is studying law at the University of Arkansas.

3-Jamie Nolan, born August 29, 1960, was married, March 14, 1981, to Debra Renee Myers at Russellville, Arkansas. Their home is in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where Jamie is a mechanical engineer for International Paper Company.

Frank Nolan received his appointment as a Lt. Colonel while stationed at Offutt Air Base, Omaha, Nebraska. After completing twenty years in the USAF, and because of ill health, he was retired, April 5, 1968, at Westover Air Force Base, Springfield, Massachusetts. Frank died suddenly July 4, 1969, from a heart attack and was buried in Chapel Hill Cemetery, Jacksonville, Arkansas, with full military honors.