Rasmus OLSON ca 1899-1965

OLSON, RANEY, LENZ, KALLSTEAD

Posted By: Ruth Tower (email)
Date: 11/30/2005 at 11:32:23

Funeral services for Rasmus Olson, 66, Livermore, were held Tuesday at the Methodist Church by the Rev. Roy Biesemeyer, Lu Verne. Burial was in Union Cemetery, Livermore, with the Lindhart Funeral Home of Humboldt, in charge.

He died Saturday morning at Mercy Hospital, Fort Dodge, where he had been a patient four days.

Mr. Olson was born and reared at Ottosen. He married Beth Raney in 1936 at Livermore. They lived at Rodman and Ottosen before coming to Livermore in 1950. Mr. Olson farmed and later was employed by the Concrete Products Company, Humboldt. For the past seven years he had been in farm work at Rodman.

He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Harry Lenz of Badger; and six grandchildren.

Other survivers are two brothers and three sisters, Nels and Tom Olson, both of West Bend, Mrs. Bertha Kallstead of Rodman, Mrs. Fred Lenz of Laurens and Miss Klara Olson of Chicago, Illinois.

(Unnamed newspaper clipping, dated Wednesday, December 22, 1965)