From VGBWillwood Burial Park interment order, historical record: wife Edna maiden name Skinner; children Jeanne (Charles) Groff & Elizabeth B. Bonne (Step); Parents Joseph Nelson & Millie ____; brothers & sis>ters Frieda (Leines) ODelius; Ester --(Hermon, Martha, Ella, Anna, Mina dec.)
Oscar D. Nelson, 85, Rural Route 1, Belvidere, died at 8:10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1 in Alma Nelson Maner Nursing Home, after one month illness. [1972?] Born Dec. 1, 1886 in Sweden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jo>seph Nelson. Lived 51 years in Rockford, coming here from Milaca, Minn. Married to the former Edna Skinner in St. Paul, Minn., March 31, 1909. She died in 1967. Employed as tool and die maker by Ba>rnes Drill Company for 26 years. Retiring 15 years ago. Veteran of WW1. Member of Masonic Lodge, Survivors include: one daughter, Mrs. Jeanne Groff, Rapid City, S.D.; seven grandchildren, eight grea>t-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Freda Odelius, Rockford, and Miss Esther Nelson, Minneapolis; several nieces and nephews. Graveside Services at 11 a.m. Friday in Willwood Burial Park with the Rev.> V. C. Domerson, former pastor of State Street Baptist Church, officiating. Burial in Willwood Burial Park. Arrangements by Long-Klontz Funeral Home, 428 Park Ave. Friends may call at the funeral ho>
me from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday. [obit from funeral home]