OLSON, Roger Duane 1940 - 1997

OLSON, SCHWARTZ, WOLTERS, OLSEN

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 1/12/2014 at 12:42:48

ROGER D. OLSON

Roger D. Olson, 56, of Ventura, died Tuesday, March 4, 1997 at the Austin Medical Center in Austin, Minn.

Funeral services were held Saturday, March 8 at the United Methodist Church in Klemme, Iowa, with the Rev. Jerry Robertson officiating. Burial was in Elk Township Cemetery in Klemme.

Roger Duane Olson, son of Melvin A. and Christina Louise (Schwartz) Olson, was born April 1, 1940 on a farm near Clear Lake. Roger attended school at Ventura, Iowa, and Klemme.

On May 28, 1960 he married Linda L. Wolters at the Little Brown Church near Nashua Iowa. He worked as a truck driver for the Doden Truck Line in Woden, Iowa, for the Klemme Cooperative Elevator, Land O Lakes in Mason City, Iowa, for 16 years and then farmed west of Ventura from 1963, until the time of his death. He did custom trucking and baling, fed feeder cattle and was a cattle buyer. He enjoyed his three grandsons, family and just plain working.

He is survived by his wife, Linda L. Olson of Ventura; two sons, Dan Olson and his wife, Eenja, and their two sons, Jacob and Daniel, all of Tague, South Korea and Gregory Olson and his wife, Kimberly, and their son, Zachary, of Kansas City, Mo.; his mother, Christina Olsen and her husband, Arlin, of Klemme; his father, Melvin Olson and his wife, Mary, of Mason City; three brothers, Merlyn Olson and his wife, Audrey, of Santa Maria, Calif., Harland Olsen and his wife, Janet, of Mason City and Randy Olsen and his wife, Monica, Garner; a sister, Susie Olsen of Klemme and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents; and a special uncle, Herbert Schwartz.

Mrs. Seth Priebe, organist, accompanied soloist Doug Hayes. Honorary pallbearers were DuWayne Bitker, Merle Pannhoff, Dean Michaelson, Scott Huerter, Lynn Wolters, Robert Wolters, DeJay Wolters, Jim Olsen and Ryan Olsen.
Pallbearers were Tom Boehnke, Tom Waddingham, Gary Anderson, Raymond Pannhoff, Roger Schmidt and Ronald Knop.