Florence (Hein) LININGER OLSON

OLSON, HEIN, BUENNEKE, LININGER, CONWAY, OELMANN, BUSH, JACKSON, BROWN, WATSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/30/2009 at 10:53:48

September 3, 1917 -- August 16, 2009

WATERLOO, Iowa - Florence H. Olson, 91, of Waterloo, died Sunday, Aug. 16, at Manor Care Health Services of natural causes.

She was born Sept. 3, 1917, in Denver, daughter of Herman and Alvina Buenneke Hein. She married William E. Lininger on June 12, 1937, in Waterloo. He was killed in action in World War II on Dec. 4, 1944. She then married Dr. Lester C. Olson on Dec. 20, 1952, in Dows. He died July 23, 1986. Mrs. Olson graduated from Waterloo East High School and was employed by the Black Hawk County Chapter of the American Red Cross from 1945 to 1950. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and Trinity American Lutheran Church.

She is survived by one daughter, Charlyne (Robert) Conway of Denver; three granddaughters, Katie (Gary) Oelmann of Ackley, Traci (Gary) Bush of Wichita, KS and Susan (Jerome) Jackson of North Aurora, IL; six great grandchildren, Ryan and Krissy Oelmann, Garrett and Ciara Bush, Joshua and Joy Jackson; and one great great granddaughter, Allesandra Sara; two sisters, her twin sister, Florine Brown of Strawberry Point and Marion Watson of Tampa, FL; one stepson, Lester C. (Donna) Olson, JR. of St Louis, MO; and seven step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a brother, Vernon Hein.

Services will be 2:30 P.M. Friday, August 21, 2009, at Trinity American Lutheran Church with burial in the Waterloo Memorial Park Cemetery. There will be no visitation, the casket will be closed. Memorials may be directed to the church
The Kearns, Huisman-Schumacher Chapel on Kimball is in charge of arrangements.

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