LOUIS ARTHUR OLSON 1918-1979

NORDHUS OLSON, KOTH, OPPERMAN, PETERSON, MCDERMOTT

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 10/8/2009 at 15:42:57

Louis Arthur Olson

Funeral services for Louis A. Olson were held Saturday, Oct. 13, 1979 at 2 p.m. at the West Clermont Lutheran Church in Clermont. The Reverend Allan J. Stoa officiated. Schutte Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in God's Acre Cemetery, Clermont.

Louis Arthur Olson, son of L. T. N. Olson and Cora Nordhus Olson, was born March 28, 1918 in Fayette County, Iowa. He passed away Oct. 11, 1979 at Community Memorial Hospital, Postville, Iowa at the age of 61 years.

He was baptized and confirmed in the West Clermont Lutheran Church. On Nov. 27, 1940 he was united in marriage to Marjorie Koth. To this union two sons were born. Louis lived in the Clermont area his entire life.

He is preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Kenneth.

Louis is survived by his wife, Marjorie; two sons, Curtis of Waterloo, and Leslie of Hasting, Minnesota; four granddaughters; one grandson; his stepmother, Mrs. Laura Olson of Clermont; four sisters: Mrs. Earl (Lavila) Opperman of Dubuque, Mrs. Mildred Peterson of Elgin; Mrs. Gerald (Dolores) McDermott of Rockford, Illinois; Mrs. Ardes __otty of Tulsa, Oklahoma; and a stepsister, Mrs. Leonard (Lorraine) Olson of San Gabriel, California.
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Louis A. Olson, 61, of Clermont was fatally injured as a result of an accident Thursday afternoon, in which the auto he was driving swerved into the path of an east-bound loaded grain truck driven by Keith Carey, 23, of Ossian, on Highway 18 east of the Lutheran Church in Postville. The Olson auto was turned completely around in the road with the impact, pinning Olson in the car. Rescue workers labored 20 minutes in an effort to free him before rushing Olson to Community Memorial Hospital where he died later that day. Carey, having his steering rendered inoperative, possibly by losing power steering fluid from the impact with car, lost control of his corn ladened truck, turning sideways on the road, upsetting the vehicle, spilling the corn load on the street and crashing into the stone retaining wall of the George Eder residence. Carey was only shaken up in the incident, treated at the hospital and released. Obituary for Louis Olson can be found elsewhere in the paper.

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