Clarice Hilma Olswold, 06 Jan 1919 - 07 Dec 2013

OLSWOLD, KIRKEBY, BRENDEN, NELSON, MULLER

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 1/14/2014 at 15:44:43

Clarice Olswold, 94

Memorial service for Clarice Olswold, 94, Amana, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Walford. She died Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids.

Per her wishes, her body was donated to the University of Iowa for medical research.

Family will receive friends after 1 p.m. at the church.

The Rev. Travis Borkosky will officiate at the service.

Inurnment will be in First Lutheran Cemetery at a later date.

Memorials may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church, Walford.

Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.klosterfuneralhome.com.

Clarice Hilma Olswold was born Jan. 6, 1919, in Osage, the daughter of Clarence and Olga Brenden Kirkeby. She received her education in the Osage schools.

She married Clarence Olswold Aug. 16, 1941, in Osage. They made their home in Osage where her husband operated a plumbing business. In 1967, the couple moved to the Amana and Williamsburg area.

She was a devoted wife, mother and homemaker. She enjoyed cooking, sewing and needlework.

Due to failing health, the couple recently made their home at Colonial Manor of Amana. Her husband died Feb. 2, 2013.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Walford.

Olswold is survived by her sons, Eugene, New Ulm, Minn.; Charles (Alice), Muscatine; Richard (Bonnie), Middlesex, N.Y., and Ronald (Debbie), Walford; nine grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; a half-sister, Iva Nelson, Ames, and a sister-in-law, Kathy Olswold, DeSota, Texas.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; one son, Allen, in July,and a sister, Ethel Muller.

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