Butch Ukura called me today with the information that funeral services for Warren Nelson will be at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, January 6, at First Lutheran Church in Aitkin, 107 Second Street SE. There will also be a visitation from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Monday, January 5, at Sorensen-Root-Thompson Funeral Home in Aitkin, 31 Minnesota Avenue S.
As posted recently by Pam Perry on mou-net, Warren died this past Tuesday, December 30. And as I previously posted in November, Warren had been one of the birding pioneers of Aitkin County and vicinity since the 1970s. Along with Terry Savaloja and Jo & Steve Blanich, he had especially studied the Yellow Rails of McGregor Marsh and the Great Gray Owls of Pietz's Road / County Road 18, and over the years countless numbers of birders were able to see these and other sought-after specialties with Warren's guidance and the information he provided. He was presented with the MOU's Thomas S. Roberts Award in 1990. Kim Eckert Duluth, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
