Marian C Nelson

Marian Nelson passed away Friday, December 1, 2023 residing at Hickory Creek at Sunset Nursing home in Greencastle, Indiana. Marian Campbell Ford Nelson was born March 15, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio, the only child of Walter Wood Campbell of Cherryfield, Maine and Ruth Osborn Campbell (Keel), born in Hendricks County, Indiana. She lived with her maternal grandparents, Charles O. Osborn and Martha E. Fisher Osborn in Hazelwood, Indiana, from the age of one year to seven 1/2 years old, attending the first and second grades at the Hazelwood school house. At the death of her grandmother in 1932, she lived with her parents in Flint, Michigan, returning each summer to Indiana to be with her grandfather and relatives. In a class of 1,000, in 1942 she graduated with honors as a pre-med student and earning three letters in major sports from Flint Central High School. She returned to Greencastle, November 1942. In addition to being a homemaker she had worked as a waitress, bookkeeper, served as Putnam County Councilman-at-large, property manager and licensed medical laboratory assistant. She is survived by Samuel Jack Butt, Linton, Camille Lynn Dills Bayless, Crawfordsville, John William (Bill) Nelson, Greencastle, Susan F Bonney, Hollester, Missouri, Cindy Pulliam, Lafayette, Kenneth Scott Nelson, Linden, and Lisa Jane Nelson, Effingham, Illinois. She is also survived by several grand and great grandchildren. Services will be held 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home with Pastor Steve Blaydes officiating. Burial will follow in Little Walnut Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 12:00 P.M until time of service on Wednesday. Memories may be shared with the family at www.Hopkins-Rector.com