Lillie May Olson 1916- 2009

OLSON, CROY, FRENCH, POWELL

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/20/2020 at 19:56:04

Sioux City Journal
15 February 2009

SOUTH SIOUX CITY (Buried Sioux City)-- Lillie May Olson, 92, of South Sioux City passed away Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, at a South Sioux City care center.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Becker-Hunt Funeral Home, with the Rev. Jerry Gilbreath, pastor of First Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 3 to 8 p.m. Monday, with a 6 p.m. service conducted by the Ladies from VFW Auxiliary 5332 of Dakota City, at Becker-Hunt Funeral Home.

Lillie was born Aug. 3, 1916, in Trenton, Mo., the daughter of Richard and Sussie Alice (Croy) French.

She married Claude Aaron Powell on May 12, 1934, in Trenton. He died on April 14, 1957. She then married Leonard Victor Olson on Oct. 6, 1966, in Fairview, S.D. He died on July 6, 1989, in Sioux City. She was employed as a nurses aide at the Methodist Hospital and the Lutheran Hospital in Sioux City, now known as St. Luke's Regional Medical Center.

She was a member of First Lutheran Church in South Sioux City, the American Legion Auxiliary and the V.F.W. Auxiliary, both of Dakota City.

Survivors include five sons, Bernie Franklin Powell of Salix, Iowa, Earl Dean Powell of Durham, N.C., Billy Wayne Powell of South Sioux City, Ted Wayne Olson of Durham, N.C., and Charles Michael Olson of Omaha, Neb.; a daughter, Phyllis Ann Hale of South Sioux City; two brothers, Francis Vernon French and Jacob Henry French, both of St. Joseph, Mo.; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, James T., Gerald Dean and Richard Ray French; and three half brothers, Chester and Charles French and Charles Croy.