The family will receive friends from 5:00pm until 8:00pm on Thursday, February 23, 2023 at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. The funeral service will be held at 12:00pm on Friday, February 24, 2023 in the funeral home chapel with burial following at Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Pearl.
Nelson was born on December 11, 1939 to the late JW Bounds and Nell Watkins Bounds in Neshoba County, Mississippi. He was a Freemason and proud business owner of Pearl Steel Erectors. Nelson was a working man and passionate about his trade. He enjoyed the process from start to finish and loyally saw everything through. Nelson worked overtime but also took providing for his cherished family very seriously and saw it as a way to ensure they had everything that they needed. In his free moments, he enjoyed skiing in his younger years and in recent times could be found out working in his yard which was always meticulously kept. Nelson also liked telling stories, including from his early life when he was a pilot.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Pauline James and his grandson, Matt Bounds.
Nelson is survived by his wife, Vondale Bounds; sons, Nelson "Ken" Kenneth Bounds, Jr (Diana) and Michael "Mike" A. Bounds (Paige); daughter, Tonya Evans (James); stepchildren, Wayne Ellis and Angela Ellis; sisters, Shirley Burnham and Virginia Porch; former wife and mother of Nelson's children, Faye Bounds; 13 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and several other beloved extended family members and friends.
Nelson will be so dearly missed.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.baldwinleepearl.com for the Bounds family.
