OBITUARY: John Gerhard Olson, 1864-1928, Mitchell County, Iowa




                          John Gerhard Olson

John Gerhard Olson was born in Cedar Township, Mitchell County, Iowa, on
February 2, 1864 to Levor and Ingeborg Uhlen Harrolsen Olson.  The years
of childhood and youth were spent in the parental home.

On June 12, 1895, he was united in marriage with Emma J. Eliason of the
Meroa community.  With the exception of a year and a half spent traveling
the west coast and fourteen years of residence in Osage, he has always
lived in the Rock Creek community.  He returned to his farm about two
years ago.  About ten years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Olson too the kind and
charitable step of adopting two orphans, Lester and Edna.

Besides the above-mentioned wife and children, the following near relatives
survive: one brother, Lauritz Olson of Detroit, MN [?] and one sister, Mrs.
Henry Lee of Grafton, North Dakota.

Mr. Olson was baptized, confirmed, and married in the Rock Creek Lutheran
Church.  This church has always been his spiritual home.  He held positions
of trust in the church and was a loyal and active member until his death.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. O.C. Myhre in the Rock Creek
Lutheran Church on March 6, 1928 and interment was made in the Rock Creek
cemetery.




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