Printed in a Thursday, February 14, 1963 newspaper
Death Takes Hans Nelson
Country Fiddler Hans A. Nelson, 87 of 5034 Hickory Street, Omaha, Nebraska, a retired baggage handler with the Union Pacific Railroad, died Wednesday at a local hospital.
He was a fiddler for dances when he was a farmer in Greeley County, Nebraska and at the National Fiddlers and Country Music contest at Brownville, Nebraska, last year he was the oldest contestant.
As a boy during the Blizzard of 1888 he found his way home from school by following a fence, he had recalled.
He was a native of Denmark and came to this country at the age of four.
Survivors: His wife, Carrie; daughters, Miss Ethel M., and Mrs. William Cowdery; sons, Marvin S. and Earl R., all of Omaha; seven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; two brothers and a sister. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Crosby-Kunold Mortuary, with burial at Hillcrest Cemetery.
~~~ from obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
Death Takes Hans Nelson
Country Fiddler Hans A. Nelson, 87 of 5034 Hickory Street, Omaha, Nebraska, a retired baggage handler with the Union Pacific Railroad, died Wednesday at a local hospital.
He was a fiddler for dances when he was a farmer in Greeley County, Nebraska and at the National Fiddlers and Country Music contest at Brownville, Nebraska, last year he was the oldest contestant.
As a boy during the Blizzard of 1888 he found his way home from school by following a fence, he had recalled.
He was a native of Denmark and came to this country at the age of four.
Survivors: His wife, Carrie; daughters, Miss Ethel M., and Mrs. William Cowdery; sons, Marvin S. and Earl R., all of Omaha; seven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; two brothers and a sister. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Crosby-Kunold Mortuary, with burial at Hillcrest Cemetery.
~~~ from obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
Printed in a Thursday, February 14, 1963 newspaper
Death Takes Hans Nelson
Country Fiddler Hans A. Nelson, 87 of 5034 Hickory Street, Omaha, Nebraska, a retired baggage handler with the Union Pacific Railroad, died Wednesday at a local hospital.
He was a fiddler for dances when he was a farmer in Greeley County, Nebraska and at the National Fiddlers and Country Music contest at Brownville, Nebraska, last year he was the oldest contestant.
As a boy during the Blizzard of 1888 he found his way home from school by following a fence, he had recalled.
He was a native of Denmark and came to this country at the age of four.
Survivors: His wife, Carrie; daughters, Miss Ethel M., and Mrs. William Cowdery; sons, Marvin S. and Earl R., all of Omaha; seven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; two brothers and a sister. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Crosby-Kunold Mortuary, with burial at Hillcrest Cemetery.
~~~ from obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
Death Takes Hans Nelson
Country Fiddler Hans A. Nelson, 87 of 5034 Hickory Street, Omaha, Nebraska, a retired baggage handler with the Union Pacific Railroad, died Wednesday at a local hospital.
He was a fiddler for dances when he was a farmer in Greeley County, Nebraska and at the National Fiddlers and Country Music contest at Brownville, Nebraska, last year he was the oldest contestant.
As a boy during the Blizzard of 1888 he found his way home from school by following a fence, he had recalled.
He was a native of Denmark and came to this country at the age of four.
Survivors: His wife, Carrie; daughters, Miss Ethel M., and Mrs. William Cowdery; sons, Marvin S. and Earl R., all of Omaha; seven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; two brothers and a sister. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Crosby-Kunold Mortuary, with burial at Hillcrest Cemetery.
~~~ from obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
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