Leona Mae Nelson Robertson

A true and lifelong Malta area native, Leona Mae Nelson Robertson passed away on February 12, 2018, due to complications of dementia and influenza.

Leona was born in Malta on March 7, 1928, and was raised until the age of seven on the Nelson Family Homestead in Content, Mont. Leona's family moved to Malta in 1935 where she has resided ever since. Her parents, Leonard B. Nelson born in Sweden and Christine M. Jacobsen Nelson born in South Dakota, had two more children, Bert and James. Leona also had an elder half-brother, Curtis who resided in Hamilton, Mont. Leona would say that the t...