Andrew Edgeston NELSON

NELSON, BARNES, SMITH, PAULSON, COOPER, KROMINGA

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/18/2009 at 12:19:55

Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA)
November 27, 1997

A. E. "Ed" Nelson, 90, of Mason City, formerly of Clear Lake, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1997, in Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake, where he had resided since late last year. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday, Clear Lake United Methodist Church, Clear Lake, by the Rev. Fred Lewis. Burial: Clear Lake Cemetery, with military honors conducted by the Clear Lake VFW. Friends may call beginning at 4 p.m. Friday at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, and for an hour before services at the church Saturday.

Survivors include his wife, Dixie of Mason City; a daughter, Jane Nelson of Cedar Rapids; two sons, Roland Nelson and wife Kathy of Mason City, and Robert and his wife Carol of Memphis, Tenn.; two grandsons, Andrew and Peter; a special niece, Juanita Cooper of Manly; and a caring friend, Gloria Krominga of Cedar Rapids. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers; and his first wife.

Andrew Edgeston Nelson was born on Feb. 14, 1907, in Clarion, the son of Nels and Grace Barnes Nelson. He was raised in Ventura where he graduated from high school and completed both radio and electrical technical schooling at Coyne Electric, Chicago, in 1930. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was united in marriage to Lois E. Smith in 1936. After Lois' death in 1978, he married Dixie Paulson on Feb. 24, 1979, in Mason City.

Ed was in the telephone business for about 35 years, 25 which he was owner and manager of the Ventura Independent Telephone Company. Later, he was an employee of the Clear Lake Telephone Company. Ed was a member of the Clear Lake United Methodist Church, the Ventura Evening Lions Club, the Ventura Volunteer Firemen, a lifetime member of Independent Telephone Pioneer Association, president of the Clear Lake Sanitary District from 1975 to 1994, and on board of the Sanitary District from 1968 to 1996. For many years he was a member of the Cerro Gordo County Planning and Zoning Commission, as well as a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, Clear Lake. Ed's family asks that memorials be directed to the A.E. Nelson Memorial Fund.