Alva Cemetery, Woods County, Oklahoma

Alva – the funeral for Muriel Nelson, 80, will be at 2 PM today at Wharton Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Ron Pingleton, pastor of the Alva First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, will officiate. Burial will be in Alva Municipal Cemetery.

She was born September 15, 1914, near Byron to Ezra and Alice Shreve Butler and died Thursday, January 12, 1995, at the Texas County Memorial Hospital. She attended a rural grade school near Byron, then went to Syracuse, Kansas, and later graduated from the Byron High School.

On January 23, 1935, she married Everett Dean Nelson at Hopeton. He died October 23, 1973. The couple lived in Hopeton where he farmed. In 1957, they moved to a farm 1 1/2 miles South and 1 mile east of Hopeton. In January 1963, they moved to Alva. She was a member of the Alva First Christian Church, the Hopeton Home Workers and Tulip Unit of Alva Garden Club.

Surviving are one son, Gerald D. "Garry" of Texhoma, Texas; one sister, Eunice Foltz of Cherokee; one brother, Walter Butler of Cherokee; eight grandchildren; and nine great – grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one son and one brother.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the church.

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