Marilyn Stull Nelson

      Marilyn Stull Nelson, 69, of Greeley, Colo., died Tuesday, March 18, 2003.

      The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Christian Church in Greeley with interment in Linn Grove Cemetery.

      Memorials may be made to the Humane Society of Weld County, Colo., in care of Allnutt Funeral Service, 702 13th St., Greeley, Colo. 80631.

      Mrs. Nelson was born June 23, 1933, in Fairfield, the daughter of George and Marie Yargus Schiedel. She married Tom Stull Dec. 15, 1956, at Little Brown Church in Nashua. He died Sept. 5, 1987. She married LeRoy Nelson Nov. 24, 1990, at First Christian Church in Greeley.

      She graduated from Fairfield High School in 1951, and from Mercy School of Nursing in Burlington in 1954.

      She was a member of the Friends of the Greeley Museums, AARP and the Greeley Senior Activity Center. Before her retirement, she was employed as a psychiatric nurse at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley. She later worked in PsychCare and for the last four years had been employed at the North Range Behavioral Center, Adult Treatment Unit, also in Greeley. In 1996, she received the Florence Shack Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nursing Care at the Bedside, one of the most prestigious awards given in psychiatric nursing.

      Survivors include her husband, LeRoy Nelson of Greeley; two sons, Jeff Stull and his wife JoAnna of Greeley and Brad Stull and his wife Maggie of Merrimack, N.H.; one stepdaughter, Mary Smith of Greeley; one stepson, LeRoy Nelson of Kersey, Colo.; and seven grandchildren.

      Fairfield-area survivors include her uncle, Carl E. Schiedel; and her aunt, Marjorie M. Schiedel.

      She was preceded in death by her parents and brother.