OLSON, Helga c1865-1943

OLSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/19/2009 at 12:46:07

DAUGHTER OF REV. J. OLSON

Accomplished Pianist Dies at Minneapolis

St. Ansgar—Word has been received of the death of Miss Helga Olson, 78, accomplished pianist daughter of the Rev. John Olson former pastor of the First Lutheran church.

Miss Olson died in a sanitarium in Minneapolis.

Funeral and burial services were held there.

One brother, Sigured Olson of Minneapolis, survives.

Miss Olson toured north Iowa about 35 years ago as accompanist to the Danish violinist, Skovgaard.

[Mason City Globe-Gazette - Saturday, October 30, 1943]