Twin Falls Times-News, 12/18/11 

ALBION • Cleone Stephens Nielsen, age 93, of Albion and formerly of Glendale, Calif., passed away Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, at her daughter’s home in Albion. Cleone was born Feb. 17, 1918, in Bennington, Idaho, the daughter of Isaac Edward and Mary Jane Speirs Stephens. After graduating from high school in 1936, Cleone went on to graduate from Utah State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in vocational home economics and teaching. Cleone taught for one year in Cokeville, Wyo., prior to getting married. In 1941, she married her college sweetheart, Calvin O. Nielsen, on June 4, 1941, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. After marriage, Cleone and Calvin moved to California, where she worked as a secretary for Lockheed Aircraft.

Cleone enjoyed many crafts, sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, quilting, leather work, wood carving, hat making, upholstering chairs and sofas, and making lamp shades. She enjoyed ushering at the opera house to see plays and concerts.

She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in various church positions including Relief Society, work director, in the Junior Sunday school, secretary of the Young Women’s (MIA), and worked many years in the Primary as a teacher and the president.

Survivors include her daughter, Janet N. (Alan) Clark of Albion; six grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Calvin; one son, Stephen K. Nielsen; and two brothers and two sisters, Lyle Stephens, Mabel Bentsen, Claude Stephens and Mary Ellen Peterson.

The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, at the Albion LDS Church, 889 S. Main St. in Albion. Burial will follow at the Mormon Cemetery in Albion.