Thekla Dora Sela Nielsen

Thekla Nielsen PRESTON, Iowa -- Thekla Dora Sela Kruse Nielsen, 97, Preston, died March 2, 2007, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Dorothy and Ralph Marquardt of rural New Auburn, Wisconsin. Funeral Service will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday, March 8, 2007, at the St. John's Lutheran Church, Preston. Burial will be at Center Grove Cemetery, Goose Lake. Visitation will be from 10:00 to11:00 a.m. Thursday, March 8, 2007, at the church. Memorials may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church, Preston. Mrs. Nielsen was born August 20, 1909, on the Kruse family farm northeast of Goose Lake in Clinton County, the daughter of Paul Herman and Minnie Frahm Kruse. She married Andrew C. Nielsen on May 4, 1930, at St. John's Lutheran Church, Preston. He preceded her in death July 4, 1991. She attended schools in the Goose Lake and Preston areas. She took a secretarial class to learn typing and also worked as a hired girl. She and her husband farmed the Kruse farm until 1942, when they moved to the Foster place west of Preston. In 1975, they retired to their home in Preston. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, the Women of the Church and Ruth Circle. ...[more]

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he loved reading, sewing, cooking and especially baking. Most of all, she loved and cared for her family. Survivors include three daughters, Katharine Pohlmann and husband, Kenneth, of Huntley, Illinois, Minnie Gottburgsen and husband, Martin, of Miles and Dorothy Marquardt and Ralph of New Auburn; a son, Norman Nielsen and wife, Barbara, of Preston; a daughter-in-law, Joan Nielsen of Preston; 18 grandchildren, Kristine Pohlmann Stewart, Ruth Pohlmann Carlson, Luther Pohlmann, Barbara Nielsen Ghaddar, Nancy Nielsen Gonzales, David Nielsen, Andrea Pohlmann, Andrew Gottburgsen, Inge Gottburgsen, Dana Nielsen Hackett, Michael Marquardt, Scott Marquardt, Jan Gottburgsen Ketelsen, Jon Marquardt, Ruth Nielsen, Nicholaus Nielsen, Lisa Nielsen and Laura Nielsen; 31 great-grandchildren; five great-great grandchildren; and a sister, Lorena Lindner of Portland, Ore. She was preceded in death by her husband; two sons, Frederick Nielsen and Baby Nielsen; two grandsons, Karl Pohlmann and Andrew G. Nielsen; one great-grandson; a sister, Aldine Krumviede; and a brother, William Kruse.