Claudette Nelson

© The Guthrie News Leader

Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Submitted by: Debby Cook

Funeral services for Claudette Nelson, of Guthrie, are pending at Smith Funeral Home. Claudette died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1999.

Claudette Nelson

© The Guthrie News Leader

Wednesday, December 8,1999

Submitted by: Debby Cook

Funeral services for Claudette Nelson will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, 1999, at the Smith Memorial Chapel, under the direction of Smith Funeral Home of Guthrie. Burial will follow at Summit View Cemetery, officiated by Steve Wheeler of Guthrie.

Claudette was born on Jan. 5, 1936, in Guthrie, Okla., to Albert and Helen Whittington. She was the 1936 New Year's baby for Guthrie. She passed away Dec. 6, 1999, at Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City.

She grew up in Guthrie, attending South Riverside rural school and graduated from Guthrie High School in 1953.

She married Gerald "Soc" Nelson in August 1957. Togehter they operated Nelson Aviation and managed the Guthrie Airport for nine years. She had spent the last 12 years working for G.H.M. at the Harrison House and the Best Western.

She was preceded in death by her father, Albert Whittington and her grandson, Chris Coleman.

She is survived by her mother, Helen Whittington of Guthrie; her daughter, Pam Mitchell and husband Ken of Coyle, Okla.; her son, Gerald Nelson Jr. of Norman, Okla.; her two grandsons, Geoff Coleman, Nik Labus; Gerald "Soc" Nelson and many other loving family members and friends.

Friends may call at Smith Funeral Home on Thursday., Dec. 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.