Wasco County OR Archives Obituaries.....Nelson, Mildred (Millie) Lorain April 12, 2006
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The Dalles Chronicle, April 13, 2006
     Mildred (Millie) Lorain Nelson, 86, died April 12, 2006, at the Good 
Samaritan Nursing Home in Clear Lake, S.D. 
     She was born Feb. 11, 1920, in Arlington, S.D., the daughter of John and 
Olga (Salley) Welsh. 
     She attended rural schools and graduated form Arlington High School in 
1938. She attended Madison Normal and received a teaching certificate, before 
teaching rural school in Brookings County. 
     She married Marvin Nelson, on Oct. 10, 1942, at St. John’s Catholic 
Church in Arlington, where she had also been baptized and raised in her faith. 
The couple lived on a farm north of Arlington, where they raised their five 
children. 
     As the children began leaving the nest, she went back to teaching rural 
school and continued her education at Dakota State College where she graduated 
in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in education. 
     After the rural school closed, she taught first grade in Arlington 
Elementary for many years, specializing in reading instruction. When a book 
salesman for Houghton Mifflin Company came to her classroom and saw how she 
was teaching with their materials, she was offered a job as a consultant for 
their company. 
     As a reading consultant for 15 years, she traveled thousands of miles and 
gave workshops in schools in several states. She retired in January 1988. 
She was known by her family as putting on the biggest and best birthday 
parties.
     Upon retirement, she and her husband traveled for several years in their 
motor home, enjoying stops to visit family and friends. When her husband’s 
health failed, she was his caregiver for many years as he struggled with lung 
disease before his death in January 2001.
     At 83, she was still using her teaching skills and was tutoring a 6-year-
old boy. 
     Her last years were spent battling bone fractures and complications from 
a brain aneurysm. 
     She is survived by one son, Dennis, Nashville, Tenn., and three 
daughters, Dee Alfson and her husband, Terry, The Dalles; Colleen Haufschild, 
Mobridge, S.D.; and Barb Mortimer and her husband, Dan, Clear Lake, S.D.; 12 
grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; her sister Pat Mohror, Osakis, Minn.; 
her brother and his wife, Glenn and Mary Welsh, Longwood, Fla.; her brother-in-
law, Dale Nelson, Volga, S.D.; her sister-in-law, Jean Nelson, Youngtown, 
Ariz.; many nieces and nephews; special friends of her 60-year Coffee Club; 
and many other friends.
     She was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin (2001); two sons, Craig 
Marvin (1965) and Dean Michael (1950); and her parents.
     Funeral services will be held Monday, April 17, at 10:30 a.m. at St. 
Thomas More Catholic Parish in Brookings with Father Mike Wensing officiating. 
Visitation will be Sunday, April 16, from 4 to 7 p.m. Interment will be at 
1:15 p.m. Monday at Arlington City Cemetery.
     Arrangements are by Rude’s Funeral Home in Brookings.


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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