Evelyn (Van Dusseldorp) NELSON

NELSON, MEWES, WEHRSPAN, STRONER, MULLINS, PENNING, WILLIAMS, VAN DUSSELDORP, WEHRSPAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/2/2007 at 10:09:48

Mason City Globe Gazette
04/18/1996

Evelyn Nelson, 85, of Kanawha, died Tuesday (April 16, 1996)at her home. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church with the Rev. Matthew Miller officiating. Burial will be in Amsterdam Township Cemetery. There will be no visitation, Ewing Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Evelyn Nelson (Mrs. Ernest) passed away on April 16, 1996, at her home in Kanawha. She was born in Kanawha on Feb. 22, 1911, and educated in the Kanawha schools. On Dec. 18, 1930, Evelyn married Ernest H. Nelson in Rowan, in a double wedding ceremony with Jessie and Herb Mewes. During Evelyn's lifetime, she was employed by J.U. Johnson, and was an accountant for City Meat Market, E.H. Nelson Implements, Custom Farm Services and the Grethen House. Mrs. Nelson was a lifetime member of the United Methodist Church and was active in UMC Women's Society for over 60 years. Evelyn was also a member of the Rebekah Lodge and Past Noble Grands. Evelyn's interests during her life were reading, raising flowers and knitting, but the love of her life was her family and she kept in close touch with every family member until the end.

Mrs. Nelson was the mother of Ronald, who died in infancy; Bonnie Wehrspan of Algona, and Sandra Stroner of Chicago, Ill. Her grandchildren are Mark Mullins of Phoenix, Ariz.; Michele Mullins Penning of Garner; Susan Stroner Williams of Hartford, Conn.; Elizabeth Stroner and Katherine Stroner, both of Chicago. Great-grandchildren are Nicholas, Maxwell and Justin Williams and Brooke Michaela Penning. Preceding Evelyn in death were her parents, Mary and Peter Van Dusseldorp; her husband, Ernest; and son Ronald. Also preceding her were five sisters, Martha, Theona, Minnie, Irene and Nellie; and four brothers, Jake, Neil, Engle and Leonard. Evelyn is survived by Bonnie and her husband, Ken Wehrspan, Sandra and her husband, Alan Stroner, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as sisters-in-law, many nieces and nephews, and many beloved lifelong friends.