Obituaries for DECEMBER 2005; Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.

Submitted by Louis Lavedan.

Source: The Lafourche Daily Comet

Last modified: 24 Dec 2005


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December 14. 2005 12:00AM

Dean Nielsen

Dean Carl Nielsen, 75, a native of Aurora, Iowa, and resident of Mount
Vernon, Ky., died Dec. 3, 2005, at Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center in Berea, Ky.

A funeral was held at 2 p.m. Dec. 7 at Dowell and Martin Funeral Home in
Mount Vernon, Ky.

He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Lu Ed Nielsen; sons Edwin
Nielsen of Thibodaux and Donald Nielsen of Chackbay; daughter Catherine
Silmon of Orlando, Ky.; brother Laverne "Fritz" Nielsen of Oelwein,
Iowa; sister Carole Nielsen Hart of Waterloo, Iowa; grandchildren April
Johnson, Christina Smith, Jamie Silmon, Michael Mullen, Brandi Welch,
Heather Cormier, Lauren Cormier, Lyndy Toups, Kim Badeaux and Jared
Neilsen; 11 great-grandchildren; and special friend Tom Eldridge of
Waterloo.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Morris Peter and Minnie Edith
Karson Nielsen; daughter Cynthia Lou Cormier; four brothers; and three
sisters.

He was a retired electrician, a member of the United Plumbers and
Steamfitters, a member of the Scaffold Cane Baptist Church and a U.S.
Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War.