OLSON, Martha Jane: Died 1985

OLSON, HENDRICKSON, PECK, PAXTON, GRAHAM, KELLER, HUSEMAN

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Date: 6/20/2022 at 22:21:02

**Handwritten: Ottumwa Courier
2 Jan 1986

Martha Olson

FAIRFIELD - Martha Jane Olson, 67, of Fairfield died at 4:45 a.m. Dec. 31, 1985, at the Jefferson County Hospital in Fairfield.

She was born March 18, 1918 at Iroquois, S.D., to LeRoy and Hazel Hendrickson Peck. She had lived in the Fairfield community for 35 years, moving there from Sioux Falls, S.D. She married Albert L. Olson on March 31, 1939 in Colton, S.D. and was a homemaker.

She is survived by her husband; three daughters, Carol Paxton of Agency, Jane Graham of Redmond, Wa., and Rhonda Keller of Keosauqua; two sons, Richard of Chulla Vista, Calif., and Robert of Richland; 13 grandchildren; and one sister, Iona Huseman of Rutland, S.D.

The service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Behner Funeral Home, the Rev. R. Keith Lingwall officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. today.

A memorial has been established to the American Cancer Fund.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 270,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA