- Date Of Birth: January 18, 1929
- Date Of Death: January 27, 2011
- State: Michigan
NIELSEN, Mr. Roger Williams, Kalamazoo, MI. Born January 18, 1929, passed peacefully from this life to the next on January 27, 2011 with the loving support of his caregivers at Tender Care Portage and Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan. Roger grew up in Ionia, Michigan. He proudly served his country in the Korean Conflict, graduated from Albion College, and began his career at Dow Chemical.
Thereafter, he felt called to the ministry and attended Garrett Theological Seminary in Illinois, serving many years as a United Methodist minister in small, western-Michigan churches. Later in life, he returned to science as an UpJohn employee. He is survived by his sister, Esther Robert VanHammen,; his three children, Karen Dennis Fruge, Stephen Cheryl Nielsen, and Susan Gerald Goodman; eight grandchildren: Kayla Nielsen, Brooks Fruge, Macy Nielsen, Tucker Fruge, Gage Goodman, Remi Fruge, Abbey Goodman, and Mason Goodman; and eight nieces & nephews.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Marion Spencer and Viggo J. Nielsen; his brother, Spencer; and his grandson, Steven.
