Happy Father's Day, Dad

Cart Evert Reinhold Nelson (1915-1999)

Rockford East High School.  As picture here in 1933.

Augustana College.  1939.  The first member of his family to graduate from college.

Augustana College Seminary.  1943, and the start of a 38-year ministry that affected so many people in very positive ways.

• Messiah Lutheran Church.  Auburn, Washington.  1943-1952.
• First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.  Great Falls, Montana.  1952-1957.
• St. Paul's Lutheran Church.  Warren, Pennsylvania.  1957-1981.

Thanks for the valuable lessons you taught us through your compassionate and benevolent examples.

Love, Paul