OLSON, Olga Dorthea 1910-1997

OLSON, KNUTSON, ANDERSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/22/2009 at 16:24:55

GLOBE GAZETTE - 04/06/1997

Olga Dorthea Olson

NORTHWOOD, IOWA - Olga Dorthea Olson, 87, died Saturday (April 5, 1997) at the Lutheran Retirement Home.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Deer Creek Lutheran Church in Carpenter with the Rev. Kathy Larson officiating. Burial will be in the Deer Creek Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, Highway 65 South, Northwood.

Olga was born on Feb. 4, 1910, in Barton Township, Worth County, the daughter of Ole L. and Mary Knutson Anderson. She was baptized and confirmed at Deer Creek Lutheran Church, Carpenter. She graduated from Carpenter High School in 1929. Olga married Melvin A. Olson on April 23, 1930, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City.

They lived in Mason City until moving to the farm near Carpenter in 1942. Olga later moved to Northwood in 1980.

Olga was active in the ELCW as a circle member and the Carpenter Friendship Club. She enjoyed family gatherings, her grandchildren, church activities, quilting and handwork.

Olga is survived by one daughter, Carol, and her husband, Caryl Rohrer, of Clarion; four sons, Arnold, and his wife, Mary Kay, of Minneapolis, Minn., Keith, and his wife, Sandra, of Glenville, Minn., James, and his wife, Judy, of Northwood, and Roger Olson of St. Ansgar; 14 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Leonard, Olaf and Anton.

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