Nelson, Mrs. Frank A. (Emma R.)

NELSON, SIERK

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer
Date: 11/28/2009 at 11:38:08

MRS. FRANK A. NELSON

Funeral services for Mrs. Frank A. Nelson, 83, formerly of 335 E. 15th St., South Sioux City, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Jack Becker Funeral Home in South Sioux City. The Rev. Herman J. Heise, pastor of St. Paul United Methodist church, South Sioux City, will officiate. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City.

Pallbearers will be Elmer and Jack Parker, Alfred Jensen, Earl Pierce, Nolan Christensen, and Ed Krause.

Mrs. Nelson, the former Emma R. Sierk, was born Feb. 7, 1885, at Jackson where she was married to Frank A. Nelson in 1908. He died Jan. 1, 1960, at South Sioux City. She was a member of the St. Paul United Methodist church, South Sioux City.

Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Lillian Perazzo of Sioux City, Mrs. Anna Parker of Jackson, and Mrs. Nellie Kirkpatrick of Smithland, and a brother, Lew Sierk of Salina, Kan.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, Friday, June 7, 1968