Mary Lucille Nelson Scholarship

Mary Lucille Nelson Scholarship

Mary Lucille Arbingast was born at Brownsdale, Minnesota, on December 19, 1918, the daughter of Faye Oxley Arbingast and Clarence Earle Arbingast. She attended public schools in Brownsdale and Austin, Minnesota, and was graduated from Austin High School in June 1936.

She was awarded a scholarship to attend Winona State University, but for personal reasons, it was necessary for her to decline. She married Stanley C. Nelson on March 1, 1946, at Brownsdale. She was a founding member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Austin.

For many years, Mrs. Nelson served as office manager for Botsford Lumber Company (later, United Building Centers), at Austin. Mrs. Nelson died on March 26, 1990. Cremains are interred in the Nelson family plot in the Enterprise Cemetery, Austin.

Scholarship contact is Berge Garabedian (nephew of Mary).

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