Diana Nelson

Diana Sandoval Nelson, age 85, of College Station passed away Sunday, September 10, 2023.

Diana was born on April 5, 1938, to Juan Jose (JJ) and Dora Sandoval. Diana grew up in Cimarron, NM, and graduated from Cimarron High School in 1956. After graduation, she moved to Albuquerque and attended UNM.

Her career began at Kurtland AFB and she was a highly regarded secretary there, and she worked at various locations where Paul’s career found him as a researcher and scientist at Sandia Labs, Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Oak Ridge Laboratories in Tennessee, and Texas Tech in Lubbock.

Diana was also able to work with Paul in some of his project work and she served as the Editorial Assistant for Paul when he was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Transport Theory and Statistical Physics.

Diana and Paul enjoyed entertaining friends and colleagues in their home and traveling with colleagues as work took them around the world. They also enjoyed substantial travel as a family together with their son, Kevin. In every country she visited, Diana searched to find the very best examples of chocolate she could find. Switzerland undoubtedly had the best in the world, as far as she was concerned.

When home in College Station, Diana enjoyed serving as a Docent for the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

Diana was preceded in death by her parents, several siblings who died before the age of 10 and then siblings who survived to adulthood, two brothers, Manuel and Pat, and one sister, Viola Sandoval Taylor.

Diana is survived by her husband of 59 years, Paul Nelson Jr., and son Kevin Nelson, both of College Station.

Funeral Service will be at 2:30 pm on Friday, September 15, 2023 with a time of visitation starting at 1:30 pm at Callaway-Jones Funeral Center in Bryan. Interment will be in College Station Memorial Cemetery.