Final Resting Place

Florence Rappaport

Kraft-Sussman Funeral & Cremation Services

Shania Cordes

Ruth Frazer

Viegut Funeral Home

Cynthia Nelson-Gubbrud

Adair Funeral Home - Dodge

Altogether<br/>4307 Vineland Road, Suite H-17-19, Orlando, FL 32811<br/>For more information, visit our website at <a href='www.altogetherfuneral.com'>www.altogetherfuneral.com</a><br/>Copyright © 2025 FPG Intermediate Holdco, LLC

On the afternoon of December 26th, 2022, Cindy passed away after a yearlong battle with cancer at Tucson Assisted Living Retreat in Tucson, Arizona shortly after being comforted by family. Cindy was 75 years old.

Born Cynthia Jean Gibson in Saint Louis, Missouri on September 13, 1947, to William “Bill” Gibson and Ruth Lucille Voss. She grew up hand in hand with her niece Beverly (Blackey) Sottung who was just a year younger and mentored by her sister Patsy Blackey and brother-in-law Charlie Blackey. Cindy graduated from Melville High School in 1966. She worked in clerical at the historic Anheuser-Busch Brewery while her father worked in production.  She married her high school beau in 1967 and traveled with him for his service in the United States Airforce to Great Britain. In England she worked as telephone switchboard operator where she made sure service members got their calls home.  One of those service men was Alan R. Nelson of Canton, South Dakota. She returned to the US to marry him and move to Vermillion, South Dakota.  They were married in June of 1970 in Canton. In June 1977, they adopted a 6-week-old girl through Lutheran Social Services who they named Jennifer. They moved as a family from Vermillion to Alcester where Cindy assisted Alan during tax season at his CPA office. Eventually they moved to Sioux Falls in 1985.  There Cindy worked for First Bank of Sioux Falls as a teller and safe deposit administrator where she met her long-time friend Sue Vesco.

Following her divorce in 1991, she left First Bank, working for the Veterans Administration as a receptionist before finally settling in at Orion Food Systems in 1994, then a Division of Schwan’s, as a receptionist/switchboard operator becoming the first person many heard when they called. There she met her longtime friend Diane Sykes. The time following her divorce was a financial hardship, but Cindy was tenacious and found two part time jobs to supplement her daytime work. During the week she worked as the night admin for the YWCA downtown, seeing many Snowfox Swim team members, and during every other weekend she was the nighttime admin/reception for Charter Hospital. 

Even with this busy work schedule she started dating Clayton Gerald “Jerry” Gubbrud mid-1993. Jerry had seen Cindy leaving the same attorney he was using for his divorce and reached out multiple times over the years before Cindy acquiesced to go on a date. This began a decade plus of companionship, with Cindy moving to the farm outside of Hudson, South Dakota around 1996. They welcomed the weddings of Jerry’s eldest daughters Paige (Glen Rehberg) and Gretchen (Chris Hammer), and Cindy’s daughter Jennifer (Melvin Kemp). Along with the marriages they welcomed Gretchen and Chris’s many foster children. They took on a full renovation of the house and Cindy slowly took over the groundskeeping around the property enjoying many hours on her zero turning radius mower. Additionally, Cindy adopted a few cats which then turned into a very large clowder which she doted on excessively. Jerry, though not a cat person, was the favorite of a few of them throughout the years.  

Jerry and Cindy were finally joined marriage in 2005 with longtime friends Cal and Sue Hanneld of Tea, South Dakota as witnesses at Lands Church outside of Hudson. Cindy was a regular for the Ladies Auxiliary at Lands helping with the after-services coffee hours, funeral luncheons, and other church activities.  Cindy was left a widow in 2006 from Jerry’s sudden death. Following Jerry’s death, the family made sure she kept active with seven grandchildren born between 2008 and 2013 and all of them were boys.  These boys include the Kemp side with Jennifer’s sister-in-law, Becca (Kemp) Huck who worked with Cindy at Orion from 1999-2008. Cindy travelled to South Carolina (Hucks) and Arizona (Kemps) for a few holidays with her favorite travel buddy Jocy Huck before she settled into retirement from Orion in 2015. She made many trips to see Benton (Jennifer and Mel’s son) to take care of him and see the sights in Arizona as well as hosting his first Thanksgiving and teaching him all the joys of her kitties and the coldness of snow.

During her retirement Cindy kept up with her activities with the Ladies Auxiliary, her cats and the groundskeeping of the property.  She kept up with the Hammers for breakfasts and shopping excursions with Sue Vesco, phone calls with her family in Missouri and her former sister-in-law Judy Nelson in Colorado plus keeping up with all the grandchildren. When the pandemic started, she kept close to home with a well-stocked pantry and church services online.  Cindy kept up the phone contacts with family and friends.

In late 2021 she came down with what was thought to be a respiratory illness but was diagnosed just before Christmas 2021 as Stage 4 Lung cancer that had metastasized to her thorax, brain, and bones. This diagnosis prompted a long hospital stay to stabilize her with a feeding tube and full brain radiation before returning to the farm with Jennifer as her primary caregiver.  In March 2022, Jennifer and Melvin moved Cindy to Tucson to an assisted care facility while her cancer was being treated locally.  She made good friends with Marilyn who also grew up in St Louis and was surprised with a visit for her 75th birthday by Diane.  While initially the medications were keeping her cancer at bay, by October they had stopped working and Cindy was place in in-home hospice.  The wonderful staff of Bristol Hospice and of Tucson Assisted Living Retreat kept Cindy warm and comfortable while she slowed down, had a brief hospital stay after a fall, and into her final moments on December 26th, 2022.

Cynthia “Cindy” Nelson-Gubbrud was preceded in death, by her parents, by her sister and brother-in-law, by her mother-in-law Mildred “Millie” Gubbrud, her dear husband C. Gerald “Jerry” Gubbrud, her and Jennifer’s friend Daniel Hanneld, former brother-in-law Gene “Mort” Nelson, and former sister-in-law Helen Nelson. She is joining her beloved cats and a few loyal dogs over the rainbow bridge.

Cindy is survived by her daughter Jennifer Nelson Kemp, son-in-law Melvin Kemp, grandson Benton Kemp; her niece Beverly Sottung, her nephew Craig Blackey, her great nieces Christa (Sottung) Shinault and Sarah Blackey, great nephews Anthony Sottung and Christopher Blackey as well as a plethora of great-great niblings and great-great-great niblings; her stepdaughter Gretchen Hammer and her family, Chris, Adam and Kayen; her stepdaughter Paige Rehberg and her family, Glen, William-Greyson and Britton; her daughter-in-law in heart, Becca Huck and her family, Rob, Viktor and Nikolai.  She is also survived by her former sisters-in-law Judy Nelson, Shirley Veldman and Linda Griffin as well as many nieces, nephews and further on the Nelson side. Friends Sue Vesco, Diane and Bob Sykes, Eileen and John Paulson, Cal and Sue Hanneld, Jocy Huck, and neighbors Ruby and Rodney Hakl, all miss her dearly.

Services will be held at Lands Lutheran Church, rural Hudson, on February 21st at 11 o’clock with a luncheon at the church after graveside services.  Cynthia's love of animals was well known, in lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society in her name.

When words can't fully express what we want to say, sometimes a small gift can. Visit our Memorial Store for personalized gifts, keepsake jewelry and to plant a memorial tree.

We use cookies to improve your browsing experience and analyze site traffic.
<privacyLink>Privacy Policy</privacyLink>.

<firstParagraph>We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze how you use this website, store your preferences, and provide the content and advertisements that are relevant to you. These cookies will only be stored in your browser with your prior consent.</firstParagraph><secondParagraph>You can choose to enable or disable some or all of these cookies but disabling some of them may affect your browsing experience.</secondParagraph>

<firstParagraph>We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.</firstParagraph><secondParagraph>The cookies that are categorized as 'Necessary' are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site.</secondParagraph>

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

Analytics

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

Functional

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

Necessary

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

Performance

Customize Cookie Preferences

Verification Successful!

New Message

The following files could not be uploaded

Ways you can honor {memorialName}'s memory:

Donation Link

Upcoming Event

Featured Mementos

Welcome Message

Select an item to highlight

Add a highlighted item

Customize which items you’d like to highlight on the memorial

Create Account

Become a Keeper

As a free {brandName} user, you will only be able to make 5 photos and videos public.

As a free {brandName} user, only the first five (5) Mementos are visible to page visitors. You can change which Mementos are public by dragging and dropping a photo or video to one of the first five positions. Upgrading to {brandName} Plus will make all 10 Mementos selected visible to the public.

All Mementos

This option is only available to Keeper Plus users.

To allow yourself and the rest of the community to view all images and videos, and to enable everyone to download their own copy of these mementos, upgrade your account to Keeper Plus.

This memento is not visible to visitors

Your community has posted {itemCount} more pictures and videos that honor {firstName}'s memory. To view them all, and to enable everyone to download their own copy of each, this account will need to upgrade to Keeper Plus.

View all images and videos with Keeper Plus

Our Obituary Assistant helps you craft a meaningful life story in minutes. Review and edit every detail, and unlock more features with Keeper Plus.

Obituary Assistant

Spend as much time as you need working on your Memorial page before it is visible to the public, and much more, when you upgrade to Keeper Plus.

Save Page as Draft

Create unlimited event pages and unlock a suite of powerful features to help you seamlessly coordinate event details, invites, and more when you upgrade to Keeper Plus.

Event

Create a full picture of your loved one’s community and add unlimited family and friends to Loved Ones when you upgrade to Keeper Plus.

Loved One

Create unlimited Memorials — and unlock unlimited images and videos, event pages, and advanced privacy settings — to help you keep memories alive when you upgrade to Keeper Plus.

Memorial Page

Add unlimited Stories to highlight the all the things that made your loved one unique, from milestones, images, albums, documents, locations, and much more.

Highlight Stories

Upgrading to Keeper Plus means you can add additional Keepers to help you gather Mementos and tributes, approve content, build out a family tree, and tell {firstName}' story on Keeper.

Invite Keepers with Keeper Plus

Upload and display unlimited photos and videos, use unlimited Story templates to highlight key moments, and allow friends and family to download their own copies when you upgrade to Keeper Plus. 

Better Mementos with Keeper Plus

To access memorial related configurations that control the display of the banner upgrade to Keeper Plus.

This configuration  is not available on your current plan

Create a meaningful link path to add a personal touch to {firstName}'s memorial.

Custom Memorial link

Gift Messages

SENDING AS A GIFT?

Cart

About 1-800 Flowers

"Flowers were beautiful and they arrived in time before the funeral. Thank you and will purchase more in the future.!"

Hearing Tears

"Beautiful flowers, I've always enjoyed sending them to my love ones for sympathy and they have always love them very much Thanks for making people feel good when receiving them."

Sympathy

"This was true to the photo and good to know family took arrangement after the service."

Beautiful arrangement.  Perfect size for service.

Some of the great things our customers say about us

We're here to make it a little easier, with thoughtful gifts for the services & home, along with expert advice on how to be there during a difficult time.

Flowers

Gift Baskets

Express Your Deepest Sympathy

About Us

Perfect Condolence Gift

No one is meant to grieve alone

Peace and love

Product is made, packaged, and sent with love

Keepsakes

How to add your gift message

Packaging Information

Shipping information

Add a Personalized Charm to the Ornament:

Other Keepsakes

Install KeeperQR onto any headstone, urn, or other memorial in minutes.

Install

Use your phone or tablet to scan the unique code — no other tools required!

Scan

All three of our elegant KeeperQR designs are printed using durable, weather-resistant aluminum designed for indoors and outdoor use on headstones and urns, memorial benches and trees, or other monuments to your loved one’s life

Built to Last

Get <discount>50% off</discount> Keeper Plus with your KeeperQR purchase

Keeper Basic

Learn About Our Plans

Connect the physical and digital worlds to share your loved one’s life story with friends and family, no matter where they are.

KeeperQR Memorial QR Code Plaques

Planting a memorial tree or bereavement tree is a unique, environmentally conscious way to pay tribute and honor the memory of your loved one. Keeper Memorials is supporting American Forests to plant whitebark pine trees as well as thornscrub trees in select regions of the US and Canada.

Memorial Trees

KeeperQR is designed to pair seamlessly with a Keeper digital memorial. Use our FREE intuitive tools to create biographies, maps, and timelines, share photos and videos, and more with customizable features built to commemorate your loved one’s life’s story.

Powered by Keeper

Lifetime without any hidden costs or subscription traps

One time payment

Keeper is SOC2 compliant, keeping your memories safe and secure.

Data protection guaranteed

We bring your QR Codes to any corner of the globe

Worldwide Shipping

Our durable and beautiful QR code plaques create seamless connection between your loved one’s physical memorial and their digital memorial, allowing visitors to their final resting place instant access to their life legacy.

Memorial.

Honor their memory, share their story

A KeeperQR is a weather-resistant plaque with a custom QR code that links directly to your loved one’s digital memorial. When placed on a headstone, urn, bench, or tree, it allows friends and family to scan and view their life story instantly

What is a KeeperQR?

They’re built to withstand outdoor elements and adhere to most surfaces.

Where can I place the KeeperQR?

How does it work?

Frequently asked questions

KeeperQR

E-Certificate Design

Plant Memorial Trees as a Living Tribute

BRAZIL

CANADA

FLORIDA

OREGON

Memorial Project Reach

Memorial trees start at {price} per tree, with discounts for multiple trees

Our Commitment

Gift Baskets & Food

Keeper Plus

QR Plaques

Keepers Featured Products

A Greener Way to Remember

Learn about our Partners:

Help Us Complete Your Order

Remembrance Store

Through your unique link, your client can sign up for Keeper and create a Memorial for a loved one. When the Memorial page is completed by the family, it will appear on your microsite and website. You will be the main Keeper Administrator of the Memorial, along with the family member that created the page.

Invite Your Clients to Create a Memorial

Invite Families

Your Email Notifications

Notifications

Email Unsubscribe Settings

Other Settings

With your active Keeper PLUS subscription, you get unlimited access to a suite of powerful features:

Allow visitors to download a local copy of all images and videos.

Download Media

Create a custom and meaningful URL, unique to your loved one, for each Memorial page.

Editable URL

Plan public or private events and invite your loved ones.

Event Pages

Add images and create profile pages to illustrate the history and genealogy of your loved one.

Family Tree

Invite unlimited administrators to help you manage every Memorial page you have.

Keeper Administrators

Visitors enjoy unrestricted access to all uploaded images and videos.

Unlimited Media

Create unlimited Memorial pages for your loved ones.

Memorial Pages

You will be able to upload Full HD videos instead of embedded links.

Video Uploading

Your Profile

Add a business user

Edit a business user

Are you sure you want to delete these users from these brands? You will need to manually add these users again.

If the user is a part of multiple brands, you will have to delete the user from each one individually

Delete Users from Brands?

Users Settings & Notifications

Users

Are you sure you want to delete these users? This action will revoke their privileges across all brands.

Are you sure you want to delete this user? This action will revoke their privileges across all brands.

Delete Users from all Brands?

Delete User from Brand?

Are you sure you want to delete {totalDeletes} from this user?

Delete Roles from this User?

Are you sure you want to delete this user from this brand? You will need to manually add this user again.

Delete User from this Brand?

Requires users to confirm their email every time they would like to share a tribute on a Memorial page.

When Email Tribute Validation is turned OFF, Guest users do not need to confirm their email address before their tribute is published.

When Email Tribute Validation is turned ON, Guest users will need to confirm their email address before their tribute is published. They will receive an email with a confirmation link they must click.

Requires users to confirm their email only the first time they would like to share a tribute on a Memorial page.

Email Tribute Validation

If Flagged Content is turned OFF, content that has been flagged will remain public until they have been Approved or Removed from the Requests Center.

If Flagged Content is turned ON, content that has been flagged will be hidden until they have been Approved or Removed from the Requests Center.

Hide Flagged Content

Language

Email Notifications

Are you sure you want to delete the Memorial for {name}? This action will permanently remove the memorial from the system.

Delete Memorial?

When Memorial Request Moderation is turned OFF, Memorials will automatically be published.

When Memorial Request Moderation is turned ON, Memorials will only be published if and when you approve them. Memorials can be published or deleted in the Requests center.

Memorial Request Moderation

Moderation Settings

This will permanently delete your account. The business account, and business page will not be deleted. To deactivate your account, there must be another admin user assigned to your organization.

Are you sure you want to deactivate this account?

When Override Tribute Moderation is turned OFF, the tribute moderation settings on Memorial pages will be hidden and other Keepers cannot override the tribute moderation settings specified by your organization.

When Override Tribute Moderation is turned ON, other Keepers can view and change the tribute moderation settings of the Memorial pages they manage. (Each Memorial page will default to the organization’s tribute moderation setting upon creation.) 

Cynthia Cindy Nelson-Gubbrud Obituary | Altogether