Alva Cemetery, Woods County, Oklahoma

ENID — Graveside service for Sue Jane Nelson, 72, is 11 a.m. Monday, July 11, 2011, at Alva Municipal Cemetery. The Rev. Steve Roach will officiate. Arrangements by Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva.

She was born Aug. 23, 1938, in Woodward to Mary Esther (Chowning) and Henry Stelson Nickell and died July 7, 2011, in Oklahoma City.

She married Gerald (Garry) Dean Nelson June 2, 1961, at Alva First Christian Church.

Surviving are her husband Garry; children Kristy Irrer of Grosse Point Woods, Mich., Kathy Maynard of Nolensville, Tenn., and Jim Nelson of Liberal, Kan.; one sister, Lynda Bixler of Waynoka and five grandchildren.

Gerald Dean Nelson

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02-09-2017

Submitted by: Glenn

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The memorial service for Gerald "Garry" Dean Nelson is 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at the Texhoma First United Methodist Church, officiated by the Rev. Mike Enright. Family visitations 5-7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva. The graveside service is 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, at Alva Municipal Cemetery, officiated by the Rev. Ron Pingelton, Pastor of Alva First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Interment is in Alva Municipal Cemetery.

Gerald "Garry" Dean Nelson, son of Muriel (Butler) and Everett Dean Nelson was born Jan. 12, 1939, in Woods County. He passed away peacefully at his home in Sun City West, Ariz. on the 5th day of February at the age of 78 years and 24 days. He started school in Hopeton and finished in Alva, graduating from Alva High School with the class of 1957. He attended and studied engineering at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva where he was an active member of the Army National Guard. This is also where he met his late wife, Sue Jane (Nickell). They married on June 2, 1961 at Alva First Christian Church. To their marriage three children, Jim, Kristy and Kathy were born. Following their marriage, they made their home in Yale, where he worked in the oil industry for several years while co-managing his family's farmland in Hopeton. In 1980, he made a full return to his farming roots and purchased a farm southwest of Texhoma, in Sherman County, Texas. In 2014 he retired and spent his time between Creede, Colo. and Sun City West, Ariz.

He was preceded in death by his father on Oct. 23, 1973 and his mother on January 12, 1995, his brother Mack D. Nelson April 29, 1994.

He is survived by his three children, Jim and LuAnn Nelson of Liberal, Kan., Kristy and Troy Irrer of Cumming, Ga., and Kathy Nelson Maynard of Nolensville, Tenn.; five grandchildren, Hannah and Halle Maynard, Morgan and Brooke Nelson and Paige Irrer; sister-in-law and her husband, Lynda and Terry Bixler of Waynoka, and sister-in-law Karen Nickell of Oklahoma City; sister-in-law Barbara Nelson of Alva; several nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Contributions may be made in his memory to the First United Methodist Church of Texhoma,or to the First Christian Church of Alva.

Condolences may be made online at www.WhartonFuneralChapel.com.

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