Oviedia (Omvig) MICHELSON

MICHELSON, OMVIG, ROSKAMP, PETERSON, FOSEN, ABBAS, LILLARD, ASCHE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/6/2008 at 10:26:30

Wright County Monitor
June 5, 2008

Oviedia Michelson, 94, of Kanawha, passed away Monday, May 26, 2008 at The Kanawha Community Home. Funeral services were held Friday, May 30 at The Kanawha Lutheran Church. Pastor Lee Nelson and Janelle Siffring AiM officiated. Burial was held at Amsterdam Township Cemetery, Kanawha.

Oviedia Omvig was born the daughter of Abel and Mary (Fosen) Omvig. She attended rural school in a farming neighborhood near Kanawha. Oviedia lived her whole life in the Kanawha area. She was united in marriage with Ernest Michelson on March 15, 1938 at the Kanawha Lutheran Church Parsonage with the Rev. M.N. Peterson performing the ceremony. The couple made their home and farmed near Kanawha. They were blessed with one child, Lois Jean, who passed away in June of 2000. Oviedia also worked at Crist Drug Store and Anderson Department Store for a number of years. Oviedia and Ernie moved into the Kanawha Community Home on August 5, 2003.

She is survived by two grandchildren, Tracy Abbas Lillard and husband Dave; Dan Abbas and wife, Monica of Kanawha; two sisters, Ceceilia Roskamp of Kanawha and Mabel Peterson of Britt; one great-granddaughter; numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ernie; one daughter, Lois; four brothers, Joe, Oren, John, Arthur; and two sisters, Alice Asche and Synneva Abbas.