Nelda M. Center, 90, of Country Club Retirement Campus, and a former
resident of North Walnut Street, Dover, died Thursday, August 10, 2006.
Born July 9, 1916, in Fort Morgan, Colorado, Nelda was the daughter of the
late Robert B. and Carrie Alice Eyestone Spencer. She graduated from the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio, and spent her lifetime
sharing her considerable musical gifts with others. A busy and much
sought after piano teacher, Nelda also taught music at Hudson High School,
directing special choral groups, and spent twenty-six years accompanying
the church choir at the Hudson Congregational Church. Additionally, with
her flair for fun and theatre, she played, with gusto, the musical scores
of many community theatre groups in the Hudson-Akron area. An outspoken,
loving woman, Nelda was a devoted friend to many and known for her concern
for the less fortunate. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints in New Philadelphia.
Survivors include three daughters, Mary Catherine (husband, Gordon) Thomas
of Provo, Utah, Barbara Jane (husband, Robert) Scott of Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and Nancy Lee Doane of Draper, Utah; a son, John (wife, Kristin)
Center, D.V.M. of Scio; nineteen grandchildren; nineteen
great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, Nelda was preceded in death by her husband of
fifty years, E. John Center, in 1991; and by two sisters and three
brothers.
Her life will be celebrated in a service Wednesday, August 16, 2006, at 11
a.m., in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 521 Stratton
Avenue S.W., New Philadelphia. Bishop Brent Lloyd will officiate. Burial
will be Friday, August 18, at 10 a.m., in Riverside Cemetery, Fort Morgan, Colorado.
Family and friends are invited to call at the Toland-Herzig Funeral Home &
Crematory, 803 North Wooster Avenue, Dover, on Tuesday, August 15, 7 �" 9
p.m. To sign an online register and share a fond memory of Nelda, please
visit the funeral home�(TM)s Web site and click on “obituaries.”
Contributions in Nelda�(TM)s memory may be made to Hospice of Tuscarawas
County, 201 West Third Street, Dover, Ohio 44622.
Toland-Herzig, Dover
330-343-6132
www.tolandherzig.com
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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