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Silva Grace Nelson Halford
18 Feb 1913 – 10 Feb 1999
| Birth | 18 Feb 1913 |
| Death | 10 Feb 1999 |
| Cemetery | Fielding Memorial Park Cemetery Idaho Falls , Bonneville County , Idaho , USA |
| Added by | Cathlene Willis on 30 Aug 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70736979 |
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Obituary: IDAHO STATE JOURNAL Pocatello, Bannock Co., ID Friday, 12 February 1999 IDAHO FALLS [Bonneville Co.]—Silva Grace Nelson Halford, 85, of Idaho Falls, died Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at the Idaho Falls Care Center of causes incident to age. She was born February 18, 1913 at Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Walter Earnest Nelson and Mary Ellen Stuart Nelson. She lived in Salt Lake City until the age of 5, when the family moved to Pocatello. She grew up there and attended Tyhee School. She married Oliver L. Halford December 17, 1935 in the Logan, Utah, Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They made their home in Idaho Falls and Pocatello, where she had been a homemaker and mother. An active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she served in many capacities including Sunday school teacher, stake missionary and temple worker. She was a member of the Bonneville Sheriff's Posse. She enjoyed the outdoors, crafts, sewing, singing in the ward choir, singing and fishing with her children, and playing the piano and organ. Surviving are her husband, Oliver L. Halford, Idaho Falls, Idaho; two sons, Eldon Leon (Shannon) Halford, Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Dannie Lee (Karen) Halford, Idaho Falls, Idaho; two brothers, Virgil Walter Nelson, Pocatello, Idaho, and Ralph Vereland Nelson, Pocatello, Idaho; two sisters, Ruby (Howard) Knapp, Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Betty (Don) Page, Pocatello, Idaho; six grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Ronald Merland Nelson and Lester Earnest Nelson. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, February 13, 1999 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Idaho Falls 26th Ward, 2025 Jennie Lee Drive.... Burial will be in Fielding Memorial Park, under the direction of Wood Funeral Home, 273 North Ridge Avenue, Idaho Falls.
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- Lester E. Nelson 1908–1985
- Ruby Ellen Nelson Knapp 1911–2008
- Virgil Walter Nelson 1920–1999
- Ronald Merland Nelson 1926–1988
- Ralph Verland Nelson 1926–2011
- Betty Lou Nelson Page 1930–2015
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