From Steve Floor

 

South Bend Tribune

03/20/1982

 

 

IOLENE NELSON

09/22/1922  -  03/19/1982

 

    Mrs. IOLENE NELSON, 59, of 14912 Brick Road, Granger, died at 6:51 p.m. Friday in St. Joseph Hospital, Mishawaka, after a six-month illness.  She was born of Sept. 22, 1922 in Lowell, Michigan, and lived in this area most of her life.  On Dec. 31, 1944, in Mishawaka, she married Edward NELSON, who survives with four sons, WILLIAM & RUSSELL, both of California, THOMAS of Mishawaka & CHARLES of Niles; 12 grandchildren, five sister, Mrs. Laura Mae DENNIS & Mrs. Millie BYBEE both of South Bend, Mrs. Marge CARTER of Dowagiac and Mrs. Barb MARVIN and Mrs. Patty WOODCOX both of South Bend; a brother; Larry BEEBE of Colorado; and her mother, Eugenia GWILT of Dowagiac.

    Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Hollis-Palmer Funeral Home with Rev. Henry HACKETT, pastor of the Andrews Christian Church, officiating.  Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola.

    Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home.  She was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene, Elkhart.