Melvin was the husband of Eldora Alice Nickolai Nero. He was my Uncle.
Uncle Mel, well, he was a great person to hang around! He loved his wife and son's a lot. He was a very caring, romantic type person when it came to his wife. He loved to play cards and he was very good at it. He was a perfect Uncle to my brother & myself when we were growing up. He always found time to do things with my brother and myself when they came over to visit. We loved to play games with him.
He always enjoyed deer hunting with his sons in the fall.
He was a loyal member of Peace Lutheran Church in Wautoma Wisconsin right up to the time he died. He was a WWII veteran.
Uncle Mel and his wife Eldora had two sons, George A. Nero & Russell M. Nero who is now retired from his administrative position in the City of Wautoma, and resided in the Wautoma Wisconsin area with his family for many years where he ran the family business, Nero Cartage, which was his trucking and hauling business. It was a very successful business and he was a very successful businessman. He was very honest and had a very good reputation in the area.
In 1969 he was diagnosed with cancer and spent a long period of time in the V.A. Hospital in Madison Wisconsin after having surgery to try and have the cancer removed. My parents & his wife Eldora made many trips to Madison to be with him. Many of them overnight stays. I remember those trips very well. My brother Phillip and I were still pretty young yet so we never got to go up and see him, because in those days children weren't allowed to go up to the hospital rooms (kids carried too many germs, they said). So Phillip and I spent a lot of time sitting in the waiting room area while mom and dad were in his room visiting with Uncle Mel and Aunt Eldora.
He still managed to continue to run the trucking business after being diagnosed with cancer. After a while he had to give in to his failing health and hired someone to drive the truck for him because he was spending more and more time at the V.A. in Madison. As time went on, the cancer he was trying to beat finally took it's toll on him, both physically & mentally.
He was know and respected my many in Wautoma and the surrounding areas. He had his funeral shortly before Christmas that year at Peace Lutheran Church in Wautoma and was buried with full Military Honors in the Family Plot in the Wautoma Cemetery. He is still remembered by not only family members, but also by surviving friends.
After all these years I still think about him, reliving in my mind the things we did together while I was growing up. Great times, all of them. He was a super Uncle, it was hard to lose him to cancer, or anything else for that matter. But we'll all remember him for the rest of our lives. I know I will.
Uncle Mel, well, he was a great person to hang around! He loved his wife and son's a lot. He was a very caring, romantic type person when it came to his wife. He loved to play cards and he was very good at it. He was a perfect Uncle to my brother & myself when we were growing up. He always found time to do things with my brother and myself when they came over to visit. We loved to play games with him.
He always enjoyed deer hunting with his sons in the fall.
He was a loyal member of Peace Lutheran Church in Wautoma Wisconsin right up to the time he died. He was a WWII veteran.
Uncle Mel and his wife Eldora had two sons, George A. Nero & Russell M. Nero who is now retired from his administrative position in the City of Wautoma, and resided in the Wautoma Wisconsin area with his family for many years where he ran the family business, Nero Cartage, which was his trucking and hauling business. It was a very successful business and he was a very successful businessman. He was very honest and had a very good reputation in the area.
In 1969 he was diagnosed with cancer and spent a long period of time in the V.A. Hospital in Madison Wisconsin after having surgery to try and have the cancer removed. My parents & his wife Eldora made many trips to Madison to be with him. Many of them overnight stays. I remember those trips very well. My brother Phillip and I were still pretty young yet so we never got to go up and see him, because in those days children weren't allowed to go up to the hospital rooms (kids carried too many germs, they said). So Phillip and I spent a lot of time sitting in the waiting room area while mom and dad were in his room visiting with Uncle Mel and Aunt Eldora.
He still managed to continue to run the trucking business after being diagnosed with cancer. After a while he had to give in to his failing health and hired someone to drive the truck for him because he was spending more and more time at the V.A. in Madison. As time went on, the cancer he was trying to beat finally took it's toll on him, both physically & mentally.
He was know and respected my many in Wautoma and the surrounding areas. He had his funeral shortly before Christmas that year at Peace Lutheran Church in Wautoma and was buried with full Military Honors in the Family Plot in the Wautoma Cemetery. He is still remembered by not only family members, but also by surviving friends.
After all these years I still think about him, reliving in my mind the things we did together while I was growing up. Great times, all of them. He was a super Uncle, it was hard to lose him to cancer, or anything else for that matter. But we'll all remember him for the rest of our lives. I know I will.
Melvin was the husband of Eldora Alice Nickolai Nero. He was my Uncle.
Uncle Mel, well, he was a great person to hang around! He loved his wife and son's a lot. He was a very caring, romantic type person when it came to his wife. He loved to play cards and he was very good at it. He was a perfect Uncle to my brother & myself when we were growing up. He always found time to do things with my brother and myself when they came over to visit. We loved to play games with him.
He always enjoyed deer hunting with his sons in the fall.
He was a loyal member of Peace Lutheran Church in Wautoma Wisconsin right up to the time he died. He was a WWII veteran.
Uncle Mel and his wife Eldora had two sons, George A. Nero & Russell M. Nero who is now retired from his administrative position in the City of Wautoma, and resided in the Wautoma Wisconsin area with his family for many years where he ran the family business, Nero Cartage, which was his trucking and hauling business. It was a very successful business and he was a very successful businessman. He was very honest and had a very good reputation in the area.
In 1969 he was diagnosed with cancer and spent a long period of time in the V.A. Hospital in Madison Wisconsin after having surgery to try and have the cancer removed. My parents & his wife Eldora made many trips to Madison to be with him. Many of them overnight stays. I remember those trips very well. My brother Phillip and I were still pretty young yet so we never got to go up and see him, because in those days children weren't allowed to go up to the hospital rooms (kids carried too many germs, they said). So Phillip and I spent a lot of time sitting in the waiting room area while mom and dad were in his room visiting with Uncle Mel and Aunt Eldora.
He still managed to continue to run the trucking business after being diagnosed with cancer. After a while he had to give in to his failing health and hired someone to drive the truck for him because he was spending more and more time at the V.A. in Madison. As time went on, the cancer he was trying to beat finally took it's toll on him, both physically & mentally.
He was know and respected my many in Wautoma and the surrounding areas. He had his funeral shortly before Christmas that year at Peace Lutheran Church in Wautoma and was buried with full Military Honors in the Family Plot in the Wautoma Cemetery. He is still remembered by not only family members, but also by surviving friends.
After all these years I still think about him, reliving in my mind the things we did together while I was growing up. Great times, all of them. He was a super Uncle, it was hard to lose him to cancer, or anything else for that matter. But we'll all remember him for the rest of our lives. I know I will.
Uncle Mel, well, he was a great person to hang around! He loved his wife and son's a lot. He was a very caring, romantic type person when it came to his wife. He loved to play cards and he was very good at it. He was a perfect Uncle to my brother & myself when we were growing up. He always found time to do things with my brother and myself when they came over to visit. We loved to play games with him.
He always enjoyed deer hunting with his sons in the fall.
He was a loyal member of Peace Lutheran Church in Wautoma Wisconsin right up to the time he died. He was a WWII veteran.
Uncle Mel and his wife Eldora had two sons, George A. Nero & Russell M. Nero who is now retired from his administrative position in the City of Wautoma, and resided in the Wautoma Wisconsin area with his family for many years where he ran the family business, Nero Cartage, which was his trucking and hauling business. It was a very successful business and he was a very successful businessman. He was very honest and had a very good reputation in the area.
In 1969 he was diagnosed with cancer and spent a long period of time in the V.A. Hospital in Madison Wisconsin after having surgery to try and have the cancer removed. My parents & his wife Eldora made many trips to Madison to be with him. Many of them overnight stays. I remember those trips very well. My brother Phillip and I were still pretty young yet so we never got to go up and see him, because in those days children weren't allowed to go up to the hospital rooms (kids carried too many germs, they said). So Phillip and I spent a lot of time sitting in the waiting room area while mom and dad were in his room visiting with Uncle Mel and Aunt Eldora.
He still managed to continue to run the trucking business after being diagnosed with cancer. After a while he had to give in to his failing health and hired someone to drive the truck for him because he was spending more and more time at the V.A. in Madison. As time went on, the cancer he was trying to beat finally took it's toll on him, both physically & mentally.
He was know and respected my many in Wautoma and the surrounding areas. He had his funeral shortly before Christmas that year at Peace Lutheran Church in Wautoma and was buried with full Military Honors in the Family Plot in the Wautoma Cemetery. He is still remembered by not only family members, but also by surviving friends.
After all these years I still think about him, reliving in my mind the things we did together while I was growing up. Great times, all of them. He was a super Uncle, it was hard to lose him to cancer, or anything else for that matter. But we'll all remember him for the rest of our lives. I know I will.
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