Graveside services were held Tuesday at Lakeview Methodist Conference Cemetery near Palestine for Fern Louise Rosenstock Nielsen, 93, of Fairfield who died Aug 22 in her assisted living home in Humble surrounded by her family. A memorial service will be held Saturday, Aug. 28 in the chapel at First United Methodist Church, 800 E Main, Humble at 3 p.m.

Mrs. Nielsen was born Feb. 2, 1917 near Holstein, Iowa, to Fred Rosenstock and Winifred Parker Rosenstock, and grew up in Iowa and South Dakota.

She was a veteran of World War II where she served as a nurse in the U. S. Army Nursing Corps in the Pacific Theater.

Mrs. Nielsen met her husband, Rev. Howard Nielsen, while he was serving as her pastor in Washta, IA and they married in 1946.

She supported church activities at the many different churches her husband was assigned to around Texas and worked as a housewife until retraining as a registered nurse in the late 1960’s.

In 1975 they retired to a small farm near Teague, though she worked at an area hospital until the early 1980s. They moved to Fairfield in 1997.

Mrs. Nielsen is survived by daughter Karen Nielsen Carlton and husband Ed of Broken Arrow, OK; sons Paul Nielsen of Houston, Dana Nielsen and wife Lana of Humble, and Luther Nielsen of College Station;

Grandchildren Angela Carlton of Dallas, Tracy Carlton of Broken Arrow, OK, Laurie Nielsen Bender and husband David of Austin, Carrie Nielsen Starr and husband Matt of Cypress, Ryan Nielsen of Miami, FL, Danae Nielsen of Humble;

Great-grandchildren Keeli Machacek and Ian Starr of Cypress, Michael Bender and Nathan Bender of Austin; sister Edna Eide of Bemidji, MN; and brother in-law Raymond Nielsen of Fremont, NE.

She is preceded in death by her husband.

Officiating at the graveside service was retired United Methodist Bishop John Wesley Hardt of Dallas, assisted by Rev. Paul Kethley of First United Methodist Church in Fairfield.

Officiating the memorial service will be Sr. Minister, Dr. E.B. Beasley, Jr.

Making arrangements was Capps Memorial Funeral Home in Fairfield.