OBITUARY: Johanna (Johnson) Olson, 1868-1929, Mitchell County, Iowa



                           Johanna Johnson

Mrs. Olaus B. Olson, one of the best-known women of the Rock Creek
neighborhood, died at her farm home last Thursday after an illness of
three years.  She and her husband settled in Rudd Township, Floyd County,
Iowa when young people and have seen the changes of time and progress
since they first established their home.

Mr. Olson passed away on August 26, 1905, but his wife and children
carried on the home place, and it is one of the finest and most prosperous
farms of the community.

Mrs. Olson was born at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, on November 22, 1868.  At
about the age of four years she came with her parents to Charles City,
Iowa and located on a farm in Niles Township, Floyd County.  She was
married to Olaus B. Olson on March 24, 1894.  Immediately afterward
they moved onto a farm in Rudd Township, Floyd County.  On this place
she continued to live until the time of her death.

Mr. and Mrs. Olson were parents of five children: Olive, Mrs. Peter (Ella)
Iverson, Viola, and Warren, all of this community.  One child passed away
in infancy in 1905.  Besides the children, two sisters and a brother
survive, Mrs. Oliver Byatt and Mrs. Carmette Weston, and William O.
Johnson, all of Charles City.

Mrs. Olson was always interested and active in the support of the Rock
Creek Lutheran Church.  She has been all of her life an exceptionally
strong and industrious woman.  About three years ago it was discovered
that she suffered from cancer and this ended her life on October 3, 1929.

Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. O.C. Myhre, at the
Rock Creek Lutheran Church on October 6, 1929.  Burial was made in the
Rock Creek cemetery.



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