Friends pay for Astoria man's ashes to be sent to space

Astoria radio personality Jeffrey Nelson, known for his many celebrity impersonations including a spot-on William Shatner, died in September 2021.

ASTORIA, Ore. — His friends described him as “nice guy”, the type who was easy to talk to. 

Dan Boettcher said that’s how he became friends with Jeff Nelson 30 years ago. Nelson died in September of 2021 from natural causes. 

“Every Friday or Saturday night, we’d go down and have a beer and shoot a couple of games of pool and it took off from there, and we became friends,” Boettcher said.

As a former radio personality at a local Astoria

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