Joyce K. (Hosselton) CHELESVIG OLSON

OLSON, CHELESVIG, TRAUSCH, DAHLKE, HOSSELTON, HASTIE, MOFFITT, ROTHBARD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/18/2014 at 19:09:00

January 23, 1936 --- October 6, 2014

Belmond, Iowa -- Joyce K. Olson passed away in Mesa, AZ on Monday, October 6, 2014. Joyce was born on January 23, 1936 and she graduated from Eagle Grove High School in 1953.

On January 2, 1955, she married Maurice Chelesvig of Eagle Grove. They had 4 children and farmed southeast of Eagle Grove until 1972. The family moved to Belmond, Iowa in 1973 when they purchased the Belmond Furniture Store. Maurice passed away in June, 1975. In 1978, Joyce married Clifford Olson and they resided on a farm near Kanawha, Iowa. Joyce was active in the Women of St. Olaf Lutheran Church, and was on the Wright County Extension Council. An accomplished singer, she sang with the A# Music Club in Eagle Grove and with the Clarion Choralaires. In 1997 Cliff and Joyce purchased a condo in Mesa, Arizona and enjoyed spending winters there. She moved into Silver Creek Memory Care Unit in Mesa in January 2013.

She was preceded in death by her parents; first husband; sisters, Vivian Trausch and Margaret Dahlke; brother, Galen and her first son, Michael. She is survived by her husband, Clifford; sons Jeffery Chelesvig and Bradley (Trudy Hastie) Chelesvig, and daughter Kimberly Chelesvig, all of Des Moines; one brother, William Hosselton, Jr. of Greenfield, Wisconsin; two sisters, Jeannette (Ralph) Moffitt of San Antonio, Texas and Jacqueline (Gary) Rothbard of Mesa, Arizona; and many nieces, nephews and friends.

A memorial service will be held at St. Olaf Lutheran Church west of Belmond, Iowa on Saturday, October 25 at 1:30 PM, with internment at the Belmond Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Alzheimer's Association or to St. Olaf Lutheran Church, Belmond.

Des Moines Register - Des Moines, Iowa
October 19, 2014