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Elizabeth Nelson
Grand Island The Independent Online, February 28, 1998

CENTRAL CITY -- Elizabeth Alida "Betty" Nelson, 84, of Central City died Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1998, at Litzenberg Memorial County Hospital in Central City.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church in Central City. The Rev. Charles Pollard will officiate. Burial will be in the Central City Cemetery.

Solt Funeral Home of Central City is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials are suggested to the church.

Mrs. Nelson was born on March 7, 1913, in Grand island to A. J. and Bertha (Loescher) Niemoth. She attended District East 7 School in Hall County and graduated from Grand Island Senior High in 1932.

She married Ivan Arthur Nelson in 1935, at Messiah Lutheran Church in Grand Island. They lived and farmed northwest of Central City. She worked at Merrick Manor for 10 years. Mr. Nelson died on Aug. 14, 1987. Mrs. Nelson moved to Central City in November 1988. At the time of her death, she was living with her daughter.

She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church, the Ladies Church Circle and a pitch card club. She enjoyed gardening and baking.

Survivors include one son, of Central City; one daughter, of Central City; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two sisters, of Grand Island and of DeWitt, Mich.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Fred and Gus; and three sisters, Laura Lakin, Minnie Rauert and Ella Schmaltz.

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