CARLSON, JACK AND NADYNE (EGGERT)

by Jack and Nadyne Carlson

Entry F63 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

Jack and Nadyne Carlson 1987

Nadyne N. daughter of Frank and Mary
Eggert of Aurora, Ne. and John D. Carlson,
son of David and Laura Carlson of Phillips,
Ne. were united in marriage Dec. 15, 1932, in
York, Ne. They lived in Aurora where Jack
worked for the Aurora Co-op Co. A daughter
Sandra Jane was born 1933. In the
spring of 1935 they moved to Mullen, Ne.,
where Jack worked at Mathew Chevrolet Co.
owned by his uncle Harry Mathew's. A
daughter Janis Jean was born 1937.

Jack bought the J.C. Jones Blackamith
Shop in 1945, which he operated as Carlson
Body Shop, later becoming a John Deere
Implement Dealer. Jack was a Village Board
member for 15 years and Mayor several years
at which time the Mullen streets were paved
and swimming pool built. In 1976, he retired
from his business. In 1980 the building was
sold to Larry Reynolds and Lowell Anderson
at the present time 1987 it is L&L Service.
Jack and Nadyne and daughters lived in
several different houses in Mullen. Aspinall
house, Steve Ham house (where the Masonic
Temple is a present), Alex Burnett Apt.,
Mullen Refinery house.

In 1961 they built a new house where they
are living at the present time 1987. Jack and
Nadyne observed their 50th wedding anni-
versary Dec. 15, 1982 with their family
Sandra and Gerald Long, Janis and Donald
Marshall, seven grandchildren and 11 great-
grandcildren, Nadyne's mother Mary
Eggert other relatives and friends.

I like to live in a little town where the trees
meet across the street. Where you wave your
hand and say "hello" to everyone you meet.
I like to stand for a moment outside the
grocery store and listen to the "friendly"
gossip of the Folks that live next door, for life
is interwoven with the "friends" we learn to
know and we hear their joys and sorrows as
we daily come and go. So I like to live in a
little town I care no more to roam for every
house in a little town is more than a house.
It's home.