Olson, Louis Thomas 1897-1984

RURODEN, OLSON, SHIPTON, SCHUSTER, GARLISCH, MILLER, JOHNSON

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 10/8/2009 at 17:59:43

Louis Thomas Olson

Funeral services for Louis Olson, 87, were held Saturday, Nov. 24, 1984 at 10:30 a.m. at the West Clermont Lutheran Church in Clermont. The Rev. Kim Peterson officiated. Schutte Funeral Service of Postville was in charge. Burial was in Gods Acres Cemetery.

Louis Thomas Olson, son of Nels and Carolyn (Ruroden) Olson, was born Feb. 14, 1897 near Elkader. He died Nov. 20, at the Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital in Decorah.

He was baptized and confirmed in the Norway Lutheran Church at St. Olaf, and attended the rural schools of Clayton County. When he was about eight years old he moved with his family to Clermont where he lived for about a year. He returned to the St. Olaf area to live with Knute and Annie Simpson and to work on various farms in the area. After a few years he returned to Clermont and worked in the local brick kilns. Louis served in the US Army during WW I.

October 19, 1919 he was married to Ruth Shipton at Waterloo. He was employed at a pump company in Waterloo for one year. They farmed in the Postville and Clermont areas until moving to Clermont in 1927 where Louis operated an implement business and service station for several years. After that he was employed by the telephone company as a lineman and then as a carpenter and mason. He was a member of the West Clermont Lutheran Church, the Golden Age Club and a sixty year member of the American Legion, Post No. 375 in Clermont.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Ruth, five brothers, Clarence, Elmer, Vern, Sylvan and Cornelius and a sister, Lillian (Mrs. Joe Schuster).

Surviving is one son, Franklin of Altoona, two daughters, Marjorie (Mrs. John Garlisch) of Clear Lake, and Lois (Mrs. Willet Miller) of Clermont; eight grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren, two sisters, Cora (Mrs. Emil Olson) and Ruth (Mrs. John Johnson) both of Phelps, WI.

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