Nicholas “Nick” E. Even

Born March 1934 in Minneapolis Minnesota to Nicholas and Angelina (nee Weller) Even and passed into the hereafter December 27, 2024 in Ellsworth Wisconsin.

Nick was a mental health professional and served multiple non-profits as a Psychiatric Social Worker. After graduating from Excelsior Minnesota Excelsior High School, Class of 1952, Nick enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in 1952 and was discharged in 1953 when he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and was discharged from active duty in 1956. Nick graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1959 with a B.B.A. Majoring in “Factory Management”. Finding the “field of industry to be less rewarding than envisioned, Nick returned to the University of Minnesota Graduate Program earning a Masters in Psychiatric Social Work. Nick worked for non-profit mental health programs throughout his professional career including as Program Director Dakota County Mental Health Center and Zunbro Valley Mental Health Center Red Wing Branch Office Supervisor.

Nick was clever and industrious. He loved his family, friends, community and farm near Bay City. Nick enjoyed hunting and fishing and in past years made annual trips to Montana with his mules on hunting trips. Nick enjoyed wood working and spent countless hours and days in his home woodshop building projects from doorway and window trim, solid wood flooring, a spiral staircase in his living room to kitchen cabinetry. He was involved in his community and participated in meetings and group discussions with friends working to solve the world’s problems over breakfast at Perkins.

Nick was preceded in death by his wife Elizabeth (nee) Lunt, parents Nicholas and Angelina, his four sisters Shirley, Irene, Ruth and Donna, an infant daughter, and daughter Andrea Christiansen. He is survived by son’s Nicholas of Sydney Australia, Theodore of Sparta Georgia, close nephew Frederick Wester of Bay City, 7 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers Nick preferred donations to non-profit Veterans organizations assisting veterans suffering from PTSD or the Alzheimer’s Association (alz.org). In a final act of giving Nick has donated his remains to Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota for medical research. Final interment will be at Fort Snelling National Cemetery at a date TBD.

Services are entrusted to the O’Connell Family Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Ellsworth, WI 54022. For further details, please visit www.oconnellfuneralhomes.com or call 715-273-4421.