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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: RV-02
Item: 00001
Title: Mae Leona (Peterson) and son Gordon W. Nelsen
Date: 9/29/1976
Creator: Nelson, Mae Leona Peterson—1893-1988 --Nelson, Gordon Wilfred—1917-1990
Summary: Portrait of Mae L Petersen and son Gordon W. Nelsen during their oral history interview in Kenmare (N.D.), Renville County (N.D.) on September 29, 1976. __[Obituary] Mae L. Nelsen, age 94 of Longview, WA, formerly of the Kenmare area, died Friday, April 29, 1988 at Longview, WA. Her funeral will be held Friday, May 6, 1988 at the Trinity Lutheran Church, north of Kenmare with burial to follow in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery, north of Norma. Officiating for the service will be Rev. Charles Taft. Active casketbearers will include Ward Glasoe, Dave Creighton, Bruce Nelson, Donovan Nelson, Argyll Wade, and Bernard Wittman. She was born on May 31, 1893 at Hudson, WI, a daughter of Hans and Karen Christine Petersen. She attended school in Hudson Prairie and the River Falls Normal School. She came to North Dakota in 1911 where she taught at Rockford School no. 2 until 1913. She then married Anders P. Nelsen on July 1, 1914, at St. Paul, MN, and they lived and farmed in Rockford Township, Renville County, until retiring and moving to Everett, WA, in 1961. They returned to Kenmare in 1969 and they lived in the Hilltop Apartments. He died in 1973 and she moved to Longview, WA, in 1980. She had been a longtime member of the Zion Lutheran Church and was currently a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. She is survived by her sons, Gordon of Kenmare, and Kenneth of Everett, WA; daughter, Mrs. Oden (Marion) Shaver of Longview, WA; 14 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; brothers, LeRoy Petersen of Hudson, WI, and L.J. Petersen of River Falls, WI; sisters, Agnes McGuire of Litchfield, MN, and Bertha Caldwell of Canton, MN. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, son, Loren, grandson, great-grandson, two sisters and two brothers. Visitation will be Thursday from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Thompson-Larson Funeral Home of Kenmare.
Red ID: PH_I_169910 Image ID: 169289 Image Notes: 00032-RV-02-00001

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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