OBITUARY: Olga Karine Field, 1899-1986, Mitchell County, Iowa

                                           



                          Olga Karine Field

Funeral services were held Tuesday at Rock Creek Lutheran Church, rural
Osage, for Olga K. Field who died Friday September 19, 1986 at her home
in Osage.  The Rev. Roger Hoppenworth, church pastor, was in charge of
the service and burial was made in the Rock Creek cemetery.

Olga Field was born in West Cedar Township, Mitchell County, Iowa, on
October 28, 1899 to Martin and Gunhild Moe Field.  She was educated in
the rural school of Cedar Township and attended the Cedar Valley Seminary
in Osage.

She lived on the family farm in West Cedar keeping house for her father
and brother Oscar after the death of her mother in 1943.  After Oscar's
death, she and her father moved to Osage and she cared for her aged father
until his death at the age of 101 in 1959.  Miss Field was a life long
member of Rock Creek Lutheran Church where she was baptized and confirmed.

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Gea Norby, of Osage; one niece, Mrs.
Adelaide Wamstad of Nora Springs, and five nephews: Eugene Wamstad and
Harold Norby of Nora Springs, Robert Norby and Raymond Norby of Rudd,
and John Norby of Osage.  Her parents, a sister Mina Wamstad, and a
brother, Oscar Field, preceded her in death.
                                           


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