OLSON, Soren Pershing

OLSON, MYKLEBY, LOMEN, KNIGHT, KNIPPEL

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/14/2013 at 01:31:51

Soren Pershing Olson, 82, Clear Lake, formerly Horseshoe Bend, Ark., died
Monday, Aug. 27, 2001, at the Heritage Care Center in Mason City.

Memorial services were held Thursday, August 30, at Zion Lutheran Church, Clear
Lake, with the Rev. Kermit Roisen officiating. Inurnment was in the Clear Lake
Cemetery with military graveside honors by the Clear Lake VFW. Ward-Van Slyke
Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, was in charge of the arrangements.

The family of Soren Pershing Olson has requested that memorial contributions be
made to Hospice of North Iowa in Mason City, Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake,
or to the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in Horseshoe Bend, Ark.

Soren was born on Sept. 25, 1918, on a farm near Scarville, Iowa, the son of
Severt and Anna (Mykleby) Olson. He was baptized in the Lime Creek Lutheran
Church on Nov. 17, 1918, and was confirmed in the Eldora Lutheran Church in
March 1934. He graduated from the Bricelyn, Minn. high school in 1937.

Soren enlisted in the U.S. Army on Feb. 4, 1942, and honorably served his
country until his discharge on Nov. 19, 1945. He was a member of the 15th
Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron during World War II, serving 29 months in
Central Europe as a mail clerk.

He was united in marriage to Helen Lomen on Sept. 1, 1946, in the Zion Lutheran
Church in Clear Lake. Soren was employed in the Clear Lake Buttertop Bakery
before buying his own bakery in Hampton, and in 1967 he bought a bakery in
Boone, Iowa. He retired in 1980, when Helen and Soren moved to Horseshoe Bend,
Ark. They moved back to Clear Lake the last of October 2000. Soren became a
resident of Heritage Care Center in Mason City the end of March of this year,
having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

Soren loved golfing, fishing, gardening, playing bridge and riding horseback.
He was an active member of the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in
Horseshoe Bend. He also was a member of the Kiwanis Club for nearly 40 years.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Helen Olson, of Clear Lake; their two
daughters, Audrey Knight and her husband, Jack, of Boone, and Susan Knippel and
her husband, David, of Ames, Iowa. He has two granddaughters, Christine Knight
of Ames and her two daughters, Kari and Cassie Olson, and Angie Oppedahl, wife
of Jon Oppedahl of Cedar Rapids and their daughters, Anna and Laura. He also
has two grandsons, Eric and Daniel Knippel, as well as four step-grandchildren
and four step-great-grandchildren.

Other surviving family members are Soren¹s two brothers, James A. Olson and his
wife, Audrey, of Blue Earth, Minn., and Marvin O. Olson and his wife, Norma, of
Des Moines; and several nieces and nephews, as well as other relatives and
friends.

Soren was preceded in death by his parents, and one infant great-grandson, Grant
Oppedahl.