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Nan Curtis

Name: Visitation
Start: 07/12/2018 09:00 AM
End: 07/12/2018 11:00 AM
Location: Mankato Mortuary

November 11, 1926 — June 16, 2018

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Visitation

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Thursday, July 12, 2018

9:00 - 11:00 am (Central time)

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Memorial Mass of Christian Burial

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Thursday, July 12, 2018

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Nan Curtis

Antoinette “Nan” Clarice Curtis, 91 of Mankato, passed away June 16, 2018 at New Perspective Senior Living Center in Mankato.

Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held 11:00 a.m., July 12, 2018 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Mankato. Visitation will take place from 9:00 a.m. until the time of service. Burial will be at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to: St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital or Mayo Clinic Hospice-Mankato. Mankato Mortuary is assisting the family.

Nan was born to Anthony and Clarice (Lessard) Shallbetter on November 11, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she grew up with five brothers and one sister until she married Larry Watier Curtis on May 4, 1946, and moved to Sioux City, IA. After the birth of three children, the family moved to Olivia, Minnesota, where they owned and operated Curtis and Carey Ford Motor Company. In 1957 the family moved to Mankato. The family of 8 spent summers at South Long Lake near Brainerd, Minnesota, where Nan and Larry met before he went off to war.

While Nan was raising her 6 children, she found time to be a Girl Scout Leader and Cub Scout Den Mother as well as volunteering at ISJ Hospital as a Candy Striper and being an active member of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church. She was also the Resident Manager of Madison East Shopping Center shortly after it opened. She was also employed by Computo-Service and Wausau Insurance Company. Many Saturdays she was a store sampler for 7-Up and a variety of other products.

She was also a member of the Benevolent Patriotic Order of the Does and served as local, state, and National President. She would often be seen golfing at one of the many courses in the summer or skimming across Lake Washington on her jet ski or touring the lake on her pontoon. In the winter, she bundled up to jump on her snowmobile and follow one of many woodsy trails.

When Nan and Larry found themselves empty nesters, they spent winter months in Sun Lakes, Arizona. Both she and Larry were members of the VFW. Nan became President of Post 8053. They bought a home there in 1995. Nan sold the home in 2014 and moved back to Mankato and into New Perspective Senior Living Center.

The family would like to express their sincere gratitude to the staff and Nan’s friends at New Perspective for their friendship and wonderful care they provided. Mayo Clinic Hospice-Mankato supported and guided Nan and her family through her final journey.

Nan is survived by her six children and their spouses, Mary Kay (Mike) Joseph of Aurora, Colorado, Tony (Kim Ervin, MD) Curtis of Eureka, California, Candy (Ken) Jenson of Madison Lake, Minnesota, Voni (Steve) Distad of Racine, Minnesota, Guy (Linda) Curtis of Mankato, and Scott (Ana) Curtis of Pooler, Georgia; Thirteen grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren; and brothers, George, Al, and Bill Shallbetter.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Larry; her daughter-in-law, Tessa Curtis in 2007; and siblings Arlene, Jerry, and Tom Shallbetter.

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