Stacy Alen Nelson was born July 5, 1969 in Keosauqua, the son of Alan K. and Cheriel Watson Nelson. He had lived in Fairfield the last 10 years, and before that in Stockport community. He attended Fairfield schools and was currently a junior at Fairfield High School, where he participated in football during his sophomore year. He was employed part-time at Hardee's.

Surviving are his parents, Cheriel and melburn Fleig of Fairfield; four brothers and one sister, Roddney, Matthew, Corey and Renae Nelson, and Kaley Fleig, all at hoome; his paternal grandmother, Lura Nelson of Mount Pleasant; maternal grandparents, Kenneth and Kathleen Watson of Stockport; aunts, uncles and several cousins. His father, an infant brother and paternal grandfather preceded him in death.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Raymond Funeral Home with Norman Senour officiating. Burial will be in Spencer Cemetery near Stockport. Friends may call at their convenience. The casket will be closed. (NOTE: His death was cause by drowning after a vehicle crash) A memorial has been established to Fairfield High School.

This obituary was found in The Fairfield Ledger on Monday 13 October 1986 on the Front Page.

Fairfield Daily Ledger

Fairfield, Iowa                                                                                                                                                                                       

Monday, October 13, 1986

2 county teens drown when vehicle crashes into ditch

  Two teen-age boys were killed early Sunday morning when the car in which they were riding skidded out of control, hit a culvert and plunged into a ditch full of water two miles east of Fairfield on Highway 34.

  Dead are Stacy Alen Nelson, 17, Route 4, and Robert Allen Boese, 17, rural Lockridge. A Jefferson County sheriff's officer said the two boys drowned.

  A third person in the car, Clayton Joseph Hamm, 18, Eldon escaped injury, according to an officer.

 A deputy said the accident occurred at 4:15 a.m. Sunday, Hamm told officers that Nelson was driving an eastbound 1979 Buick registered to Boese's parents, Robert and Cheryl Boese.

  An officer said the driver lost control and the car skidded sideways down a steep ditch into a pool of water.

  The left side of the car was smashed when it hit a culvert, an officer said. Neither Nelson nor Boese, who was riding in the middle of the back seat, was wearing a seat belt, a deputy said Hann was setting in front seat and unhurt, an officer said, and able to crawl out of the wreckage through the front driver''s door.

  Hamm went to the nearby Floyd Shafer residence and phoned the law center at 4:23 a.m. The Jefferson County Ambulance Service was called at 4:25 a.m. and the Fairfield Fire Department at 4:48 a.m.

  Fire Chief Jack Cavenee and fireman Jerry Partridge and Doug Six went into waist-deep water and pulled the boys from the wreckage. Cavenee said the firemen also helped with cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene and on the way to Jefferson County Hospital.

  Both victims died early Sunday at the Hospital.