Joel Nielsen Obituary

THANK YOU to everyone for your love and concern for our family at this time of loss. We appreciate all the emails, cards, phone calls and those who attended the services. It has been a great strength to Mom, and all of us. Dad was a wonderful man and will be missed every day.

Dear Louise and Joel's Family, I admire your courage Louise as you bravely faced those difficult decision for Joel. I know how much you loved him and how hard it was to go to the hospital to see him and he wanted always to go home. Now he has gone home and will find great joy and happiness again. I know he will be dearly missed by all of you.

May 2, 2006 (9:22AM)



Jill and I wish to express our sympathy to all of you. Uncle Joel was a fine man and I know you will miss him dearly. His sister (my mother), Mary Marcella, experienced the same loss of personality during the last few years of her life. By the time she left us almost two years ago, we were happy to see her suffering end. Your experience is perhaps similar. But they are missed.



I remember Joel best in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He took my brother, Gary, and me fishing on the Provo river and also Deer Creek reservoir. The afternoons we spent swimming at his house are also fond memories. Like his brothers, he seemed to me to always be a very gentle man, and always treated me with kindness. Although I have not known him for several years, I feel his loss, and am saddened by it.



Jill and I are out of town today, the day of his funeral. But our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends as they say goodby to him. I wish we could be there with you.

I will miss Uncle Joel. I've always enjoyed going to visit him and Aunt Louise. I bought a '74 Cadillac Eldorado from Uncle Joel, and loved driving that beautiful car all around Utah. I hope Aunt Louise will be all right, and wish her the best.

I will miss my grandpa so much. He meant a lot to me and I love him. I admired him. As his only granddaughter he treated me like a princess. I will never forget his smile, his many kind words. I know he is watching over me.

Wow Joel, How lucky for you to finally pass thru the viel -- to see and know so much more than all of us can imagine. I'm sure your brother Boyd was there to greet you and thank you for all the times you visited him over the last 2 years of his life. Althought you were always there for him, he needed you the most at that time. My mom (your sister) who left us last month was probably one of those who encouraged you to cross over. She loved you very much and talked about your often.



Kris, Kurt, Louise and family; I feel your pain of loss. I also feel your joy for Joel. It's an inner conflict you will battle and finally accept. I hated to see my mom (his sister) leave us. Her mind left us last year but I loved being able to hold her. I knew she wasn't really there. She must have been giving us time to adjust to her leaving. You know my love goes out to you.