Patrica Ann Nelson

January 27, 1931 - August 10, 2014

Patricia Ann Nelson, age 83, of Dassel, died Sunday, August 10, 2014, at the Lakeview Ranch in Darwin. A funeral service will be held on Sunday, August 17, 2014, at 4:00 p.m. at the Evangelical Covenant Church in Dassel with the Rev. Keith Carlson officiating. The interment will be held at the Dassel Community Cemetery. A time to gather will be held one hour prior to the service at the church on Sunday Afternoon. The Johnson Funeral Home in Dassel is in charge of the funeral arrangements. Patricia Ann (Otis) Nelson, the daughter of George & Ann (Trump) Otis, was born on January 27, 1931, in Forest City, Iowa. Pat attended elementary and High School in Forest City, graduating in 1949. Through the influence of a teacher, she attended First Methodist Church, where upon confessed of faith in Jesus Christ, she was baptized and confirmed. Pat attended Fairview Nursing School in Minneapolis where she received her RN degree. Later through training at Minneapolis General-Hospital (now Hennepin County Medical Center) she received her degree as an anesthetist. Pat was united in marriage to Howard Nelson on May 16, 1958, at the Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis. To this marriage were born two sons, Mark of Chandler, Arizona and Brad of St. Louis Park, MN. Pat and Howard lived in Columbus, Nebraska; Nome, Alaska and St. Peter Minnesota, where He worked in broadcasting and Pat provided services in anesthesia for several hospitals. Of interest. While in Nome, Alaska, on the Bering Sea Coast, Pat worked in a hospital serviced by the Methodist Church Missions, she was the only anesthetist in western and northern Alaska. Pat, Howard and their sons moved to Cokato in 1968, where he worked in the school system and she worked in nursing homes, and was the Assistant Director of Nursing at the Dassel Lakeside home before retiring. The couple resided in Dassel at the time of her death. Pat's outside interests included quilting and earlier enjoyed golfing with her husband. She had been active in choir and the woman's group at the Dassel Covenant Church prior to medical involvement. Pat is survived by her husband, Howard of Dassel, two sons, Mark, wife Melissa; granddaughters, Brittney and Kelsey; Brad, (Leslie), grandchildren, Ben; and twins, Bella and Jett. She was preceded in death by her parents (who lived to be 99 and 101) and also by a grandson, Andrew Christian Nelson, age 4 1/2.