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Last rites held for O. Ramon NelsonO. Ramon Nelson died Friday, May 7, 1993, at his home in Rake He was 85 years old. Funeral service for Nelson was held May 11 at Bethany Lutheran Church, rural Frost, Minn., with Rev. Herman Heupel as officiating clergy.Burial was in Bethany Lutheran Cemetery. Bruss-Heitner Funeral home in Bricelyn, Minn., was in charge of arrangements.Otis Ramon Nelson, the eldest son of Ole J. and Bertha (Honstad) Nelson, was born June 8, 1907, in Rome Township, Faribault County, Minn. He was reared as a first generation Norwegian-American and was educated in the Erdahl Country School located near his family farm. In addition to being baptized and confirmed in Bethany Lutheran Church, rural Frost, he was also married there Sept. 8, 1934, to Esther P. Erdahl. To this marriage two children were born.As had his parents and grandparents before him, he devoted his entire life to agriculture and experienced and witnessed the evolution of farming from horse-drawn equipment to modernized machinery.After his marriage, he and his wife moved to the ancestral family farm of his mother and grandparents located in Lincoln Township, Winnebago County, where he and his family lived for over 50 years. In 1990, he and his wife left their farmplace and moved to Rake.Besides farming, he was involved in numerous farm organizations and activities. He was a faithful and lifelong member of Bethany Lutheran Church.Ramon will be remembered by his family and friends as a quiet and gentle man; a devoted father and grandfather; a hard-working and successful farmer; and a respected member of his neighborhood and community.He is survived by his two children, Mary and her husband Paul Klufa of Ames and Robert and his wife Suzanne of Eau Claire, Wis.; fourgrandchildren, James Klufa of Scottsdale, Ariz., Ann Klufa of St. Louis, Mo., Kari Nelson of Forest Cily and Mollie Nelson of Eau Claire, Wis.; two brothers, Julius Nelson of Frost, Minn., and Bimey and wife Vivian Nelson of Rake; two sisters, Lila and husband Rudy Carlson of Sioux City and Alice and husband Earle Hanselman of LuVeme; and six nieces and nephews.He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Esther in 1991, one infant sister and one nephew.
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Thompson Courier and Rake Register
Thompson, Iowa, US
Thu, May 13, 1993
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