LEWIS NELSON

Funeral for Lewis Cass Nelson of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Kenneth Truelove will officiate. Burial will be in Bellfontaine Cemetery in St. Louis at 2:30 p.m.

Friends may call at the chapel from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday.

Nelson, 65, died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Sept. 18, 1933, in St. Louis, son of Lewis Cass and Margaret Irene Taylor Nelson. He and Margarette Fischer were married Oct. 25, 1957, in Webster Groves. She died June 14, 1998. He and Elizabeth Crouthers were married in December 1994 in Cape Girardeau.

Nelson was reared in St. Louis, attended Westminster College and Washington University.

He moved to Cape Girardeau in 1965 and opened Arnold Palmer Cleaning. He also was a salesman with Tate Distributing Co., and later went into the investment business.

Nelson was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, American Legion in Sikeston, lifetime member of the Optimist Club, and former member of Jaycees. He served with the U.S. Navy in Korea.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, David Nelson of Atlanta, Ga., Peter Nelson of Katy, Texas; a daughter, Nancy Martin of Tulsa, Okla.; three stepsons, John and James Crouthers of Sikeston, Mark Crouthers of St. Louis; a brother, Richard Nelson of Wellington, New Zealand; a sister, Mary Nelson of St. Louis; his stepmother, Dorothy Nelson of Dallas, Texas; and three grandchildren.