Clara Johnson Olson, 1907-1994

OLSON, JOHNSON

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/28/2009 at 12:44:27

Wallingford - Services for Clara E. Olson, 87, of Wallingford, will be held Monday at 10:30 a.m. at Wallingford Lutheran Church with Pastor Virgil Anderson officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. She died Thursday, July 7, 1994 at the Good Samaritan Center in Estherville.

Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Sunday at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville.

She was born Feb. 16, 1907 in Wallingford, the daughter of Ole and Ida (Jacobson) Johnson. She attended country school near Wallingford. On april 6, 1927 she married Clarence Olson at Wallingford. The couple farmed near Wallingford many years, retiring in 1961 then moved into Wallingford. She became a resident of Good Samaritan Center in April of 1993.

She was a member of the Wallingford Lutheran Church, WLCW, Miriam Circle and Wallingford American Legion Auxiliary.

Survivors include one son, Arnold Olson of Wallingford and one daughter, Mrs. Romaine (Joyce) Borchers, Estherville; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother, Conrad Johnson, of North Bend, Wash.
Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Estherville Daily News, Emmet County, Iowa; July 9, 1994.