Frank Eddie Nelson
Marriages
Mary Anderson Nelson - 1933
in Leadville, Colorado.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise - May 22, 1936
DEATH OF FRANK NELSON.
The death of Frank NELSON at his home in Minturn last Friday came as a great shock to his many friends in the valley. He was stricken with pneumonia Sunday evening, after a visit to Eagle when he appeared to be in the best of health, and the dread disease took its toll suddenly. He had recently been employed as an automobile salesman for the A. B. Koonce Chevrolet Company of Eagle in the Minturn and Battle Mountain section, and had a wide acquaintance throughout the Eagle river valley and on the Frying Pan river where he was born and grew to manhood.
Frank Eddie NELSON was born on the Frying Pan, in Pitkin county, Colorado, on July 7, 1905. Died at his home in Minturn, Colo., after an illness of five days on May 15, 1936, at the age of 30 years, 10 months and 8 days.
Frank received his educational training in the rural schools of Pitkin county, and lived on the home ranch on the Frying Pan until in 1926, when he moved to Minturn, where he has since resided, having engaged in farming and mining during his residence in Minturn, until the past year, when he engaged in the automobile business.
In 1933 he was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Mary ANDERSON of Minturn, in the city of Leadville. To this union was born one son, Gary, who made the home complete with his prattle and love and care.
His untimely and unexpected departure from this life leaves to mourn his death his wife and son of the home in Minturn. His father, Swan NELSON of Eagle, Colo.; his mother, Mrs. Lydia NEWKIRK, of Ruedi, Colo,; three brothers, Earl and Leon NELSON of Ruedi, and Albert NELSON of Cimmaron, Colo.; one half-brother, Fred JAKEMAN, of Minturn, and two half sisters, Mrs. Blanche ELMONT and Mrs. Maude ELMONT of Basalt, Colo.; besides many other relatives and a host of friends. We can truthfully say in the words written by Phillip BAILEY:
"We live in deeds, not in years; in thoughts, not in breaths; in feelings, not in figures on the dial. We would count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts best."
And so our Frank lives in our lives today in the thoughts and feelings of the years he spent with us, and us with him.
Funeral services were held in Minturn Sunday afternoon from the Presbyterian church, and burial made in Riverside [sic] cemetery at Minturn. Rev. T. R. McDIVITT of Eagle delivered the funeral discourse, and the services were in charge of the Meyer Mortuary of Red Cliff.
