Emily Mildren Nielsen

Services for Emily M. Nielsen, 90, of Plainview will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Our Saviors Lutheran Church with Pastor Jacquelyn Samway officiating and burial will be in Pleasant View Cemetery at Plainview.
Visitation will be Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Ashburn Funeral Home.
She died Wednesday, January 16, 2013.

Emily Mildred Nielsen, daughter of Charles and Sophie Sazama was born October 10, 1922 at Osmond. She attended rural school at Dist. 62 north of Osmond.
On September 3, 1941 she was united in marriage to Leo Nielsen at Wayne. To this union one daughter was born, Norma J Allen of Plainview. Emily spent her entire life as a homemaker and assisting her husband farm north of Plainview. She was an avid gardener and took great pride in all her flowers. She also cared for her husbands parents who lived with them.
She was a member of Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Plainview. One of her greatest loves in her life were her grandchildren, great and great-great. She was so happy that she got to be a “great-great grandma.”

Emily is survived by her daughter, Norma, three grandchildren, Andy of Omaha, Nancy Allen and Sherry Elwood of Plainview, seven great grandchildren and one great-great granddaughter. Also surviving are a sister, Wilma Thompson of Plainview and a brother, Glen Sazama of Osmond. As well as a host of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leo, her parents; son-in-law, Edward Allen and brothers Charles, Jr., Clarence and Lawrence.