Evelyn Marie Nelson

Funeral services for Mrs. Evelyn Marie Meinke McDaniel Nelson will be held Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm in the chapel of Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home of Natchitoches, LA. Interment will follow at Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA Visitation will be held Sunday, November 2, 2008 from 2 pm until service time. Mrs. Evelyn Nelson, 78, passed away Friday, October 31, 2008. She was born January 16, 1930 in Weimar, TX to the late William Meinke and Lydia Schmidt Meinke. She was preceded in death by her husband, W.C. “Sarge” Nelson and a sister, Leona Hotz. She will be remembered as a loving mother and grandmother and dearly missed by her family and friends. Those left to cherish her memory include sons, Ernest V. McDaniel, Jr and wife Simin of Shreveport and William “Billy” Nelson and Karen of Mt Pleasant, TX; daughters, Linda Marie McDaniel Griffin and husband Steve of Ventura, CA, Karla Jean Nelson Bankard and husband Flynn of Shreveport and Shirley Ann Nelson Cochran and husband Tony of Texarkana, TX; daughter-in-law, Carol McDaniel; grandchildren, Melissa Griffin, Amy Griffin, Erin S. McDaniel, John-Todd N. McDaniel, Derek Nelson, William G. Bankard, Daniel F. Bankard, Kristin C. Hunsicker, Eric D. Cochran, Laura E. Cochran and Emily N. Cochran; and great grandchildren, Alexander Hunsicker, Jackson Nelson, Ashton Nelson, Haiden Nelson and Kaylee Knowles; special friends, Susie and Dean Dove. The family would like to extend their deepest gratitude to the staff of the Grace Home located at 1035 Margaret Place in Shreveport for their dedicated care of Mrs. Evelyn. Memorials may be made to the Grace Home in Mrs. Nelson's name.