She worked for the F.W. Woolworth store in downtown Fremont, also Schweser's, and Gail's in the Fremont Mall.
On December 28, 1943, she married Raymond Nelson in the First Lutheran Church in Fremont. They lived on farms northwest of Fremont until moving into Fremont in 2002. Marie and Raymond were long time members of the Bluffs Trinity Lutheran Church.
Marie was preceded in death by her husband Raymond on January 8, 2007, by their son Dan, and her brother Francis Soukup.
Surviving is her brother John Soukup of rural Fremont, niece Barb Baker and husband Glenn of Waco, Texas, nephews Carl Soukup of Fremont and Harold Soukup and wife Leona of North Bend.
The funeral service will be 1:30 PM Thursday (April 2nd) in the Ludvigsen Mortuary Chapel, Fremont, with the Rev. J.O. Baumgartner officiating. The committal will be in Memorial Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Bluffs Trinity Lutheran Church. Visitation at the Ludvigsen Mortuary, Fremont, will be on Wednesday from 2 to 8 PM.
Online guestbook at www.Ludvigsenmortuary.com
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Mike Steen
LaQuinta, Ca Tuesday, March 31, 2009 The Traveler By James Dillet Freeman Marie has put on invisibility. Dear Lord, we cannot see--- But this we know although the road ascends And passes from our sight, That there will be no night; That You will take her gently by the hand And lead her on along the road of life that never ends, And she will find it is not death but dawn. We do not doubt that You are there as here, And you will hold her dear. Our life did not begin with birth, It is not of the earth; And this that we call death, it is no more Than the opening and closing of a door--- And in Your house how many rooms must be Beyond this one where we rest momently. Dear Lord, we thank you for the faith that frees, The love that knows it cannot lose its own; The love that, looking through the shadows, sees That You and she and we are ever one