Faye D. Nelson

Faye D. Nelson, 86, of La Grande, died Sept. 14 at a local care center. Faye was cremated. The family will hold a celebration of life at a later date.

Faye was born March 8, 1923, to Alfred and Josie Marker Fincher in Severe, Utah. She was raised on the family farm near Vale. She married Samuel E. Nelson Feb. 18, 1943, and together they raised five children.

A large part of the years that she and Sam were raising their children was spent in logging camps moving quite often where the work took them. They settled permanently in Eastern Oregon in 1964. Sam died in January 1969. Faye remained in La Grande until she died.

She was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

She loved to do crafts and spent many hours on her hobbies. She loved music and getting together with her family to play music and sing. She loved her children and grandchildren.

She is survived by her remaining children, Carl and JoJean Nelson of La Grande, Sally and Tom Lawry of Las Vegas and Joe-Ann and Bert McMichael of Jordon Valley; daughter-in-law, Clara Nelson of Hesperia, Calif.; 12 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; four sisters; and two brothers. She was preceded in death by her sons, Billy Joe Nelson of Camas, Wash., in 1972 and Everett Nelson of Hesperia, Calif., in November of 2005. Her granddaughter, Bobbi Jo Tuck, daughter of Joe-Ann McMichael, died suddenly four days before Faye.

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