Harold
V. Nelson, 78Halstad - Harold V. Nelson, a long time editor and publisher in northwestern Minnesota and southeastern Wisconsin, died Tuesday, November 11, 1997 at Minneapolis.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 15 at the Halstad Lutheran Church in Halstad. Burial was Monday at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis. The Fredrikson Valley Funeral Home of Halstad was in charge of the arrangements.
Harold was born on June 12, 1919 at Erskine, the son of Verner and Hannah (Olson) Nelson. Harold graduated from Warren High School in 1937. From 1937 to 1939 he worked for and learned the printing business from his father at the Marshall County Star. He was the youngest newspaper editor in the state of Minnesota for many years, publishing his first newspaper, the Middle River Record, at the age of 20. During World War II Harold served in the Navy, stationed at the Fleet Hometown News Center in Chicago.
Harold had Minnesota newspapers in Badger, Red Lake Falls and Halstad with a free-circulating shopper/newspaper in Crookston and a county seat newspaper, the Grant County Independent from 1958 through 1963 in Lancaster, WI. He was also a partner in a printing business, Travel Mat, in Prairie du Chien, WI. At the time of his death, Harold was publisher of The Shopper and president of Diversified Printers, Inc. in Halstad.
Harold is survived by his wife of 58 years, Doris of Halstad; two daughters, Sharon (Harry) Schindele of Maple Grove and Nancy Lee Nelson of St. Paul; and one son, Eugene Nelson of St. Cloud; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.