Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service Is Expanding to By CHRIS REMELY, Funeral Director and Owner, Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service in Belgrade. But the residents of Belgrade were accustomed to traveling to Bozeman for many of their necessities. And even though there was a Dokken-Nelson Belgrade location to serve families, many of them still insisted on making funeral arrangements in Bozeman. As such, the Belgrade doors were closed a few years later, and Dokken-Nelson returned to running all of their operations out of Bozeman. As the years went by, the idea of having a Belgrade location was always in our minds. We saw the explosive growth in Belgrade and the west Gallatin Valley and knew it was only a matter of time before it would make sense to have a second location in Belgrade to better serve this area of our community. Discussions of a Belgrade location began to percolate again several years back, but then came the pandemic. Belgrade! For more than 100 years, Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service has been serving the Gallatin Valley. And if walls could talk, the history would come pouring out. There are death records dating back to the late 1800s, and records of families who lost multiple loved ones to the Spanish Flu in the early 1900s. Throughout Dokken-Nelson’s history, there have been a variety of business names, owners and locations. But the name Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service has been in place since 1954, and it has been located at 113 S. Willson in Bozeman since 1936 — with the building being added to the Montana National Register of Historic Places on Dec. 21, 1987. Dokken-Nelson is a pillar of our community and has a legacy of serving multiple generations of families. In the early 2000s, Dokken-Nelson attempted to have a presence 16 | Directors Digest
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