Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Charles S. Nelson

March 30, 1924 - Jan. 18, 1995

 

South Bend Tribune 1/22/1995

SOUTH BEND - Services for Charles S. Nelson, 70, who died Wednesday in St. Joseph's Medical Center after an illness, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Alford's Mortuary. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call one hour before services in the funeral home.

 

Mr. Nelson retired from Hurwich Iron Co. He was born March 30, 1924, in Dexter, Mo., and lived in South Bend for 43 years, coming from Neelyville, Mo. He is survived by two daughters, Brenda McGee and Shirley Brooks, both of South Bend; a son, Jeffrey Brooks of England; four stepdaughters, Alice McGee, Ernestine McGee, Doris McGee and Mary Flowers, all of South Bend; two stepsons, Ronald McGee of South Bend and Hois McGee of Queens, N.Y.; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; three sisters, Hazel Hill and Fern Ivory, both of South Bend, and Fronie Young of East St. Louis, Ill.; and a brother, Elmore W. of St. Louis. He was a veteran of World War II.