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Nellie Gertrude Lindberg, age 101, of Cedarville, Michigan, died on August 26, 2018 at Cedar Cove Assisted Living. She was born on June 21, 1917 in Hessel, Michigan, to August John and Frances (Bumstead) Lindberg.
Nellie grew up in Hessel and graduated from Sault High School. She began teaching in 1937 at the Maple Leaf School on Rockview Hill. She earned her Bachelors in Science in 1952 from Michigan State Normal College. Nellie continued to teach elementary all over the Eastern Upper Peninsula until 1972, when she retired. She then worked for United States Postal Service for ten years. After retiring from the Postal Service, Nellie returned to teaching in a volunteering capacity.
Nellie was a teacher at heart and loved to educate anyone. She enjoyed playing the piano, reading geography books, and studying the dictionary. In the last few years, Nellie has like to play bingo and trivia while living at Cedar Cove.
Nellie is survived by five generations of Lindberg nieces and nephews living all over the United States and abroad.
Nellie was preceded in death by her parents, August and Frances Lindberg and six siblings, Albert Lindberg, Delia Bickham, Ella Esseltine-Cope, Mae Gustafson, Edna Soderlund, and Charlie Lindberg.
Visitation will be held on Friday, August 31, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at R. Galer Funeral Home, 24549 S. M-129, Pickford, Michigan. Funeral Service will follow at 1 p.m.
Burial will follow at Rockview Cemetery.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.rgalerfuneralhome.com.
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Sponsored by Family Life Funeral Homes - Pickford (formerly Galer FH).
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This is from a memory book written by my Aunt Muriel MacDonald Roeske:
My favorite teacher ever with Miss Nellie Lindberg from Hessel, Michigan. She was a young woman of about mid-20s, very pretty, with long blonde hair tied up in a knot on the back of her head. A very devout Christian, she lived with her mother in Hessel. She loved all children and all of us knew it. She was strict and had a way of disciplining a wayward child that he or she never forgot. . . but never slapped, spanked, or embarrassed any child. She loved everyone of us, and we knew it. It seemed she never tired of teaching us new things. Not only school things, but 4- H things, music things . . . (she’d bring guitars, mouth organs etc. to school and teach us to play them at noon hour). She also read story books to us that we’ve never heard before . . . usually one chapter a day, right after our Pledge of Allegiance. She taught us to play her guitar, to sew, to crochet. She always kept her big black Bible on the very front middle of her desk. We all learned to reverence it. We didn’t dare ever set anything on top of it, or throw papers on it. Without ever preaching she taught us to reverence God’s Word.
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