Charles A. Nelson, 88, well known Milton area resident, carpenter and retired farmer, died unexpectedly Saturday, July 6, in his home at 372 Madison Avenue.
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church, the Rev. Earl Cruzan officiating. Burial was in the Milton Cemetery with Robert Hurley, Allison Davis, Leman Rood, Kenneth Page, Gary Hess, John Kelly, Kenneth Nelson and Ronald Ohmann as pallbearers.
The son of Nels and Caroline Olson Nelson, he was born March 31, 1880, in Dell Rapids, S. D., coming to the Milton area as a youth. He was married to the former Mabel Severance Aug. 19, 1909 at Elcho, Wis.
Mr. Nelson, a member of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church, had served as deacon since 1911.
Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Verna) Klein, Chicago, and Mrs. Reva Thielen, Madison; two sons, Erlo, Milton, and Nolan, Grand Rapids, Mich.; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; a brother, Julius, Milton; two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Frederick, Milton, and Mrs. Lyda Hurley, Madison.
