Buelah Marie Nielsen, nee Sears, passed from this life on January 8, 2018. She was born in Washington, D.C. December 6, 1924. She married Claude Dent Nielsen, Jr. April 18, 1947. She raised six children in Adelphi, Maryland and has resided at Riderwood for the past fourteen years. She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Nellie Sears, her husband of sixty years, Claude Dent Nielsen, Jr., her sister, Catherine Billodeaux, and her son Claude Dent Nielsen, III. She leaves a large and loving family: her daughters Sandra DiFilippo (Mike), Sharon Riley (Jim), Catherine Davis (Randy), Patricia (Pepsi) Nielsen, her son Frederick Nielsen, her grandchildren T. J. DiFilippo, Donna Slomba, Sara Foreman, Mark DiFilippo, Scott Riley, Eric Riley, Jason Davis, Claude Dent Nielsen IV, Shannon Nielsen, Joseph Nielsen, Ashley Nielsen, Frederick Nielsen, and Timothy Nielsen, fifteen great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.

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