Cora L. Dowd Nielsen

1921 ~ 2015

Cora always had a happy heart and a smile on her face. She would sing to everyone and burst into song at any moment. She has now sung her last song for us. She passed away peacefully on October 31, 2015.

Cora was born in Salt Lake on January 10, 1921 to Henry and Cora Isabel Greenhalgh. She graduated from West High School and was a registered North Stake Daughter of the Utah Pioneers with her grandmother, Caroline Wakefield Fitt.

Cora loved to sing and paint and she loved cats. She had three children, William Henry, Edward Albert Vincent and Barbara Ann (Vincent) Walters. She had four husbands through her life: Vernon Vincent and Joseph Harold Walters, both she divorced and widowed by Edward Kenneth Dowd and Robert Elroy Nielsen.

Cora is preceded in death by her siblings; Lucille Jones, Laura Prescott, Alice Adams and Walter, George, James and Harry Greenhalgh and her son, William Henry Vincent.

She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Ann O'Brien (Blaine), stepdaughters; Claetra Howcroft (Steve) and Nezla Erekson (Al), many grandchildren, great and great great-grandchildren.

Rest in peace Mom, you are A-1.

Graveside services will be held Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 1:00 PM in the Larkin Sunset Gardens Cemetery, 1950 East Dimple Dell Road (10600 South) Sandy, Utah. A visitation will be held one hour prior at the same location. Online condolences may be made at www.larkincares.com.