Jess NELSON

NELSON, WILLIAMSON, FULLER, CADY, BARNETT, DUNCAN, SCHLEIFFARTH, WITT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/19/2008 at 11:58:12

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
July 31, 1985

Services for Jess Nelson, 73, DeSoto, who died Monday, July 22, 1985 at his residence, were held Thursday, July 25 at the Earlham Friends Church with burial at the Earlham Cemetery.

Born at Belmond Aug 9, 1911, he was the son of Ben and Esther Nelson. He lived most of his life in Earlham but also lived for a short time in Washington state and lived in DeSoto for nine years. Mr. Nelson was a heavy equipment repairman for Marquette Cement Co., and retired in 1973.

Survivors include his wife, Doris of DeSoto; daughters, Geri Williamson and Maxine Fuller, both of Earlham, and Carol Cady of Cedar Rapids; stepdaughters, Sybil Witt of Falbrook, Calif., Karen Barnett of Earlham and Janice Duncan of Seattle, Wash; stepsons, Gene Price of Bellevue, Wash., and Jim Price of Earlham, a brother Ray Nelson of Winterset; a sister, Emma Schleiffarth of Earlham; and 14 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Erma; his parents, a brother, a sister and two grandsons.