NELSON – Hans A., 5034 Hickory St., Wednesday, age 87 years. Survived by wife, Carrie; 2 daughters, Miss Ethel M. Nelson, Mrs. William Cowdery; 2 sons, Marvin S., Earl R., all of Omaha; 7 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; 2 brothers, Tom, Omaha, George, Denver, Colo.; sister, Mrs. Mary Iversen, Vona, Colo. Services Saturday 11 a.m. Crosby-Kunold Mortuary, 32nd Ave. and Farnam. Committal Hillcrest.

#2-14-1963

Death Takes Hans Nelson

EX-U.P worker was Country Fiddler Hans A. Nelson, 87 of 5034 Hickory Street, 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, and at the National Fiddlers and Country Music contest at Brownville, Neb, 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.

~~~ Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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