Doyle Nelson

Doyle Clitus Nelson, 94, of Morehouse, died March 9, 2015, at the VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Born November 30, 1920, in Hartman, Ark., to the late Elzie and Georgia Thomas Nelson, he served in the US Navy and was employed by Music City Manufacturing. He was a musician, and played guitar for Roy Acuff at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tenn. He was a member of the Nashville Musician Association AFM Local 257. He also was a member of the Canalou Assembly of God Church. On December 17, 1947, in Piggott, Ark., he married Janet Tharp, who survives of the home.

Additional survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, James and Emmy Nelson of Watertown, Tenn.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and Jackie Bly of Watertown and Annette and Allen Payne of Sikeston; two brothers and sisters-in-law, A.J. “Jay” and Margaret Nelson of Hendersonville, Tenn. and Noble “Jack” and Davina Nelson of Orlando, Fla.; four grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Waldo Nelson, and one sister, Flois Nelson Collier.

Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. until time of the funeral service at 12 noon on Thursday, March 12, 2015, at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel, with Rev. Steven Cartwright, pastor of the Canalou Assembly of God, officiating.

Interment will follow in the Sikeston Memorial Park Cemetery, with full military honors provided by the Missouri Military Honor Guard.

Online condolences may be shared at: www.nunneleefuneralchapel.com.