Services scheduled for former Ontario fire chief
By Melissa Pinion-Whitt | Melissa.Pinion-Whitt@inlandnewspapers.com |
PUBLISHED: August 12, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 5:41 a.m.
A memorial service for retired Ontario Fire Chief Fred Nelsen will be Tuesday at the Ontario Convention Center.
Nelsen, who worked for the Ontario Fire Department from 1976 to 2002, died Sunday due to an illness. He was 70.
The service will be 11 a.m. at the convention center, 2000 E. Convention Center Way.
People not in fire department vehicles may use the main convention center parking lot on Holt Boulevard between Vineyard Ave. and Convention Center Way.
A viewing has been scheduled from 4 until 8 p.m. Monday at Draper Mortuary, 811 N. Mountain Ave., Ontario.
Donations may be made to the Fred C. Nelsen Fire Explorer Scholarship Fund by sending checks to the Kiwanis Club of Ontario.
Write "Nelsen Scholarship" on the memo line. Ontario Kiwanis is at 366 E. Sixth St., Ontario, 91764.
Melissa Pinion-Whitt