Nellie Todd 1930 - 2017

TODD, JOHNSON, CARSWELL

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/15/2017 at 15:17:03

Sioux City Journal
6 February 2017

SIOUX CITY | Nellie Todd, 86, of Sioux City, passed away Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, at Westwood Specialty Care.

Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Waterbury Funeral Service of Sioux City. A family visitation will be held following the service.

Nellie was born on Aug. 12, 1930, in Jackson, Neb., to Roy and Sidney (Johnson) Todd. She graduated high school in South Sioux City.

Nellie married Howard Carswell in Sioux City, and together they had two sons. The family moved to Carroll, Iowa, in 1959. She then moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1982, and finally back to Sioux City in 2006.

Nellie enjoyed going to casinos and horse races. She worked as a medical transcriptionist, and was retired by the time she moved back to Sioux City.

Survivors include her sons, Doug Carswell and his wife, Ruth of Riverton, Ill., and Pat Carswell of Scottsdale, Ariz.; sisters, Naomi Butcher of Sioux City, and Grace Church of Sioux Falls, S.D.; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.

Nellie was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Howard; one brother; and one sister.