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G. Stanley Nelson
NAMPA—Funeral services for
Granville Stanley Nelson, 70, Nampa Route 7, who died Sunday
at a Boise hospital, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m.
at the Alsip Funeral Chapel with Bishop Robert E. Lee of the
Nampa 6th Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
officiating. Interment will follow in Hillcrest
Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Nelson was born
March 25, 1905, at Worcester, Mass. The son of N.L.
and Maude Noble Nelson, he spent the early part of his life
in Provo, Utah, where his father was a professor at Brigham
Young University. He finished his high school
education at Downey, and then attended Idaho State College,
and Stanford University. He was married to Armenta Deppe in
Pocatello July 8, 1935. He was in the Navy
Construction Battalion during the Second World War.
After his naval service he and his family moved to Boise,
where they resided until 1958 at which time they moved to
the Nampa area. In 1948 he and Demond Deppe formed
Nelson-Deppe, a local construction firm. He was a
member of the Nampa 6th Ward L.D.S. church, the Nampa Elks
Lodge No. 1389, The Boise Aerie No. 115, Fraternal Order of
Eagles, and was a member of the Associated General
Contractors.
He is survived by his
wife, of Nampa, one son, Lawrence S. Nelson. Nampa, four
sisters, Cally Thomas and Dorothy Woodruff of Salt Lake
City, Utah, Muriel Wilding of Downey, and Helen Miller of
Richfield, Utah; and three grandsons, Joseph, Michael, and
David Nelson of Nampa. He was preceded in death by his
parents, one son, Thomas Nelson. and one sister, Barbara
Rasmussen. The family suggests donations be made to
the Bloom Coronary Care Unit at St. Luke's Hospital in
Boise.
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