John H. Nelson

© Enid News and Eagle

06-1988

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

The funeral for John H Nelson, 67, 817 S. Arthur will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Ladusau Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. Virgil Swift officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Nelson died Sunday at his cabin at Kaw Lake after an apparent heart attack. He was born July 21, 1920 in Beatrice Nebraska and moved with his family to the Jefferson area before moving to Enid where he attended schools. In July 1940, he married Edna May Wahl. They lived in Enid.

He served in the U.S. Army at the European Theater during WW ll and was honorably discharged in November 1948.

He returned to Enid and worked for Swift and Company. He last worked for Pillsbury 33 years retiring in 1982. He was a member of the VFW, Men's Garden Club and Madison Avenue Baptist Church.

Surviving are his wife; two sons Herbert of Enid and Richard of Moore; and seven grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, a son, a grandson and a granddaughter.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Baptist Cardiac Care Unit.

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