Minding one’s own business doesn’t mean you can’t also watch out for your community.
Local businessman Richard B. Nelson passed away on May 21 at 75 after a lifetime of leadership and leveraging his positions to create opportunities for others.
He was born in Texas on Dec. 24, 1949, to Richard L. Nelson and Dorothy Rush. Nelson was raised in the East Bay and moved to Sacramento in the early 1970s. He attended CSU Chico on an academic scholarship…