Mamie Beckjorden Olson 1888-1910

OLSON, BECKJORDEN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/10/2015 at 22:46:10

Death of Mamie Beckjorden Olson
This community was shocked Sunday evening when the sad news was heard that Mrs. Ole Olson, nee Mamie Beckjorden, was dead. Her death occurred Saturday afternoon after only a brief illness.

On Tuesday afternoon Mamie Bertha, the wife of Ole E. Olson, who passed away at Whitney, S.D., was laid to rest in the family lot in Armstrong cemetery. Mrs. Olson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.G. Beckjorden and was born at Thompson, Iowa, Nov.1st, 1888, her age when called away, being twenty-one years, nine months and twenty-one years, nine months and twenty-five days. She was married to Mr. Olson at the home of her parents near Halfa on Nov. 3, 1909, and in March, 1910, she left with her husband for their future home in South Dakota.

The time between her arrival in Whitney and her departure to be with God was spent in a happy effort to make beautiful the little home which she and her husband were striving to build up in that new and northern country, and with glad and happy expectancy she was looking forward to the arrival in the month of September, of her father, mother and sisters. But the Creator of us all, whose thoughts are higher than ours, had made other plans; and on the afternoon of Aug. 27th, as she was about to undergo that ordeal which is at once the tenderest and most precious experience in a wife’s life, God called her home. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, a father and mother, four sisters and a host of friends.

We remember Mamie as a girl possessed of all those characteristics which go to make up a winsome womanhood; and the though her life down here was short, yet its sweet and gracious influence will be felt for many a long day in the lives of those who knew her best.]

Mamie graduated from the Armstrong schools with the class of 1907, and members of that class contributed to the floral offerings at the funeral.

Our sympathy in all its fullness, goes out to the bereaved ones, and may the comfort of the Comforter be theirs in this their hour of trail. – Armstrong Journal (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, September 7, 1910)