Nancy Ann Halverson Wellman

Goodbye “Nana”💕 It is with sadness that I share this news with family and friends. My Mom, the one and only, beautiful, sweet, generous creative and loving, resilient and strong Nancy Halverson Wellman has passed. She entered hospice care at Angel’s Grace in Oconomowoc in the afternoon of October 24, 2025 and passed that evening in a woodland setting, with Sinatra playing in the background. She was born in 1938 on a dairy farm in Vesper, Wisconsin. Her parents Walt and Mert Halverson were wise, resourceful, kind and generous. She grew up as the only girl in a family of 4 kids. My Grandpa called her “the petunia in the onion patch”. She graduated from Pittsville HS and moved to Milwaukee where she met my Dad at a music venue called The Eagles Club. The venue is still in operation as The Rave. In an interesting twist her youngest grandchild currently works at that very same place. Mom was a naturally talented trumpet player and pianist, at one point playing in a community band conducted by her daughter. She travelled far and wide marching parades, playing concerts and competitions with the Oconomowoc American Legion Band. She loved music. She took great pride in her work with the Oconomowoc Area School District as a Library Media Aide, a literacy coach, Home Healthcare worker, and eventually as a “tech” with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in Fisheries Management. Mom was a positive thinker, an incredible problem-solver, a people person and a woman of great faith and energy. She loved generously and lived joyfully. I will miss her so very much, but she won’t really be gone because she’s so much a part of who I am. Goodbye Mom.💕 Amazing Grace Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound That Saved a Wretch Like Me! I Once was lost, but now I’m found Was blind, but now I see. ‘‘Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved; How precious did that Grace appear The hour I first believed! Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; ‘‘Tis Grace has brought me safe thus far and Grace will lead me home.