Zelma Delores (Elswick) Nelson

November 20, 1906 – August 25, 1963

Zelma Delores Nelson, 56, died of a heart attack at 10:30 p.m. Sunday at her home in Winfield, Kansas.

Born in Kansas on November 20, 1906, she was the daughter of Ira and Nettie E. Washburn Elswick. Following her graduation from Perry high, she lived with her parents in Perry and Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In Bartlesville she worked for the welfare adjustment department in the Oakland school district and on the federal business census.

At the time of her marriage to Roy C. Nelson on October 19, 1937, she was employed in Wichita, Kansas. After her sister, Ruth Ann (Elswick) Hough’s, death in 1945, Roy and Zelma raised Ruth’s youngest son.

Roy was an oil field worker most of his life and, consequently, the couple moved from place to place. Zelma’s final home was in Winfield, Kansas. While living in Winfield, she worked as a bookkeeper.

Survivors include: her husband, Roy, of the home at Winfield: and her mother, Mrs. Nettie Elswick of Winfield.

Funeral will be a 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Parker chapel in Perry. Burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery, Perry.