Dennis Nelson (photo by Susan Knox Wilson)
Susan Knox Wilson
After 29 years, Dennis Nelson and his wife, Judy, are leaving PebbleCreek for a new home in La Loma Village. “There were only 100 homes in PebbleCreek when we moved here and we met everyone,” marveled Dennis. “Look at it now!”
Dennis and Judy not only met everyone, they were active in almost everything—tennis, bridge, golf, you name it—and did a lot of volunteering. “Judy was a librarian back in New Jersey, so when we came here it was natural for her to volunteer in the library and she got me to help, too.” In fact, Dennis has been a volunteer in the Eagle’s Nest library for all the 29 years he has lived here. “He will be greatly missed,” commented Arlene Hunt, Eagle’s Nest library coordinator. “Dennis maintained the entire library by himself—often aided by Judy—for the first 15 years of our existence. Today we have six volunteers doing all that work.”
“It wasn’t a big deal,” Dennis claims. “I’d just stop in the library on my way to the fitness center, or after a game of golf, or maybe on our way to dinner—whenever I was coming or going to the clubhouse. It was great meeting the people who came in and seeing what people were reading.”
Dennis, a CFO with AT&T before retiring, also served on the Financial Committee the HOA formed in the mid-1990s (and disbanded in 2013). “I was chairman of the committee twice, when it was first formed and again in the early 2000s. We helped set up what is now the reserve fund, and initiated different golf fee plans instead of just annual or daily rates. We saw a lot of changes—all designed to keep PebbleCreek a premiere community. It’s been a great place to live.”