OBITUARY: Mrs. Rose (Wetzel) Olson, 1889-1966, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]

                       
                 MRS. ROSE OLSON, 76 DIED HERE SATURDAY

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Our Savior's Lutheran Church
for Mrs. Rose Olson, 76, who died Saturday at Mitchell County Memorial
hospital.  Mrs. Olson had been ill about one week. (Jan 13, 1966)

The Rev. Obert Hoven and the Rev. Ed Schlachtenhaufen, associate pastors
of Our Savior's were in charge.  Arrangements were by C. R. Champion and
Sons and burial was in the Osage Cemetery.

Rose Wetzel was born at Floyd, Jan 21, 1889, the daughter of George F.
and Frances Lisel Wetzel.  She grew to womanhood in Charles City and
attended convent schools there.

Her marriage to Oscar H. Olson took place Dec. 15, 1908.  They farmed
near Floyd until 1917, and that time moved to Osage.

Mrs. Olson was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran church, joining at the
time the family moved to Osage. She held a life membership in Our Savior's
Lutheran Church Women.  She also served as housekeeper at the church.
Mrs. Olson was employed for many years at the Cedar Valley produce in
Osage.  She was active also in the local Senior Citizens, in Osage's First 
Naturalist and Flora May Tuttle Naturalist clubs.

Surviving are one son, Robert O. Olson of Osage, nine grandchildren; two
brothers, John Wetzel of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Charles Wetzel of
Potlatch, Idaho.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Oscar; three children, Mrs.
Frances Bellis, Melbourne and Lloyd; one granddaughter, Peggy Ann Olson;
her parents, four sisters and four brothers.





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