Ida G. Nelson, daughter of the late Senator Knute Nelson, and last survivor of the Senator's immediate family, died at the family home here Saturday, after a lingering illness. She was 74 years old.
She took an active interest in political affairs during the lifetime of her father and for a number of years after his death, and was well known to all of his political associates, who join with local people in mourning her passing.
She was an active member of the WCTU and the Women's Relief Corps of which she had been both president and secretary. She was also a member of the board of the state soldiers home, and was a member of the Alexandria Library board, as was her father before her.
Ida Nelson was born May 23, 1869 in Wisconsin, but came here with her parents when she was a year old, and spent all of her life in this community. She is the last of the family, her father, mother, three sisters and a brother having preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at the home and at the Emanuel Episcopal church, Rev. R. N. Harris officiating and Rev. A. t. Tjornholm giving a brief talk on his long friendship with the Nelson family. The body lay in state in the church from 2:30 o'clock to 3:00. Burial was in Kinkead cemetery. The pallbearers were C. W. Colbjornsen, Bemer Hoglund, Fred Oppel, E. R. Westerberg, A. C. Schneiderhan and Herb Tonneson.
(Park Region Echo, 16 April 1942)
She took an active interest in political affairs during the lifetime of her father and for a number of years after his death, and was well known to all of his political associates, who join with local people in mourning her passing.
She was an active member of the WCTU and the Women's Relief Corps of which she had been both president and secretary. She was also a member of the board of the state soldiers home, and was a member of the Alexandria Library board, as was her father before her.
Ida Nelson was born May 23, 1869 in Wisconsin, but came here with her parents when she was a year old, and spent all of her life in this community. She is the last of the family, her father, mother, three sisters and a brother having preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at the home and at the Emanuel Episcopal church, Rev. R. N. Harris officiating and Rev. A. t. Tjornholm giving a brief talk on his long friendship with the Nelson family. The body lay in state in the church from 2:30 o'clock to 3:00. Burial was in Kinkead cemetery. The pallbearers were C. W. Colbjornsen, Bemer Hoglund, Fred Oppel, E. R. Westerberg, A. C. Schneiderhan and Herb Tonneson.
(Park Region Echo, 16 April 1942)
Ida G. Nelson, daughter of the late Senator Knute Nelson, and last survivor of the Senator's immediate family, died at the family home here Saturday, after a lingering illness. She was 74 years old.
She took an active interest in political affairs during the lifetime of her father and for a number of years after his death, and was well known to all of his political associates, who join with local people in mourning her passing.
She was an active member of the WCTU and the Women's Relief Corps of which she had been both president and secretary. She was also a member of the board of the state soldiers home, and was a member of the Alexandria Library board, as was her father before her.
Ida Nelson was born May 23, 1869 in Wisconsin, but came here with her parents when she was a year old, and spent all of her life in this community. She is the last of the family, her father, mother, three sisters and a brother having preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at the home and at the Emanuel Episcopal church, Rev. R. N. Harris officiating and Rev. A. t. Tjornholm giving a brief talk on his long friendship with the Nelson family. The body lay in state in the church from 2:30 o'clock to 3:00. Burial was in Kinkead cemetery. The pallbearers were C. W. Colbjornsen, Bemer Hoglund, Fred Oppel, E. R. Westerberg, A. C. Schneiderhan and Herb Tonneson.
(Park Region Echo, 16 April 1942)
She took an active interest in political affairs during the lifetime of her father and for a number of years after his death, and was well known to all of his political associates, who join with local people in mourning her passing.
She was an active member of the WCTU and the Women's Relief Corps of which she had been both president and secretary. She was also a member of the board of the state soldiers home, and was a member of the Alexandria Library board, as was her father before her.
Ida Nelson was born May 23, 1869 in Wisconsin, but came here with her parents when she was a year old, and spent all of her life in this community. She is the last of the family, her father, mother, three sisters and a brother having preceded her in death.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at the home and at the Emanuel Episcopal church, Rev. R. N. Harris officiating and Rev. A. t. Tjornholm giving a brief talk on his long friendship with the Nelson family. The body lay in state in the church from 2:30 o'clock to 3:00. Burial was in Kinkead cemetery. The pallbearers were C. W. Colbjornsen, Bemer Hoglund, Fred Oppel, E. R. Westerberg, A. C. Schneiderhan and Herb Tonneson.
(Park Region Echo, 16 April 1942)
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