Mrs. OLIVER L. (Inez Viette Wurtzel) OSLAND 1916-1990

PLADSEN, WURTZEL, OSLAND, PETERSON, SVENDSEN, DUBIN

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 10/22/2009 at 08:52:14

Funeral services for Inez Osland, 74, of Waukon, were held Friday, December 28, 1:30 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Waukon. Rev. Lynn Groe officiated and interment was in Oakland Cemetery, Waukon. She died Dec. 24 at Eagan, MN, at the home of her daughter, Eileen Dubin, with whom she had resided for the past 4 months.

Inez Viette Osland, daughter of Herman and Inga Pladsen Wurtzel, was born September 25, 1916 in Center Township, Allamakee county.

She attended rural schools and graduated from Waterville Consolidated School. She also attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls for a 12 week term.

On Jan. 7, 1941 she married Oliver L. Osland at Waukon.

She was a teacher, homemaker, ran a general store in Waterville and was a housekeeper at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon for many years. She was Sunday School Superintendent at Waterville Lutheran Church for many years and after moving to Waukon was a member of various ladies groups at St. John's Lutheran Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Oliver, Jan. 7, 1983.

She is survived by a son Ernest of Waukon; and a daughter, Eileen of Egan, MN; 5 grandchildren; a brother, Truman; 2 sisters, Ramona Peterson and Norma Svendsen, all of Waukon.

Casket bearers were Roger Peterson, Todd Larson, Raymond Svendsen, James Rathbun, Glenn Grimstad and Charles Weipert.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.
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