WILLIS NOBLE NELSEN, 96, of Exira, died Friday, April 4, 2025, at the Friendship Home in Audubon. Funeral service for WILLIS NELSEN will be held 11-a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at the Schmidt Family Funeral Home of Exira.

Visitation with the family will be held from 10-until 11-a.m. Wednesday, at the funeral home.

Committal in the Exira Cemetery will follow the funeral service. Full military honors will be conducted by the Brayton American Legion #350 & The Iowa Military Honor Guard.

Memorials may be directed to the Brayton American Legion Post #350 in Willis’s memory or mailed to the Schmidt Family Funeral Home, P.O. Box 201, Audubon, IA 50025.

WILLIS NOBLE NELSEN is survived by:

His sons – Mark Peppers, of Glenwood, and Kris Nelsen, of Exira.

8 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren, his son-and daughter-in-law;  other relatives, and friends.