Donald L. OLSON

OLSON, PUTBRESE, COATS, STEVESON, BESCHEN, VANNEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/9/2010 at 21:37:38

Belmond Independent, Iowa
May 21, 2002

Donald L. Olson, 82, Mason City, died May 14 at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit. A Memorial service was held May 17 in the community room at The Willows on the Mercy Medical Center West Campus. Inurnment will be held at a later date. Donald was born October 15, 1919, in Sac City, the son of Edward O. and Ruby H. (Putbrese) Olson. He graduated from Sac City Schools. Donald married Doris G. Coats October 19, 1941 in Lake View. He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII aboard a troop transport ship in both the Pacific and Atlantic theaters. After leaving the military he farmed with his brother and parents for 10 years near Sac City. Don then worked as Sheriff of Sac County, for Aid Assn. for Lutherans, as a probation agent, and as Executive Secretary of the Iowa Board of Parole in Des Moines until he retired in 1982.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Bill. Donald is survived by his wife; daughters Sonnee (Ron) Steveson of Ventura (formerly Belmond), Tamara Beschen of Seattle, and Laura Olson of Decorah; grandchildren Derek Steveson of Phoenix, Jennifer Steveson of Phoenix, Brooke Beschen of Seattle, and Peter, Samuel and Paul Vanney of Decorah; and brother Charles (Phyllis) Olson of Sac City.