NORMA NELSON

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Funeral for Norma Lee Nelson of Advance will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Morgan Funeral Home. The Rev. Wayne Page will officiate. Burial will be in Dongola Cemetery at Dongola, Mo.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today.

Nelson, 74, died Thursday, April 5, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born July 7, 1926, at Dongola, daughter of Norman and Rita Sample Shell. She and Carl T. Nelson were married Feb. 2, 1946, in St. Louis. He died in 1979.

Nelson retired as a supervisor with Getty Oil in Houston, Texas.

Survivors include two sons, Mark and Keith Nelson of Houston; two brothers, Grant Shell of Arkansas, Burk Shell of Advance; five sisters, Mary Winchester and Velma Bess of Cape Girardeau, Carol Costello of Advance, Charlene King of Festus, Mo., Brenda VanGennip of Marble Hill, Mo.; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.