Monona County IA Archives News.....MR. AND MRS. ALFRED OLSON CELEBRATE SILVER WEDDING May 1945
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Soldier Sentinel May 1945
MR. AND MRS. ALFRED OLSON CELEBRATE SILVER WEDDING
				(1945 – by the text)
	Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Olson of Carroll and formerly of Soldier 
celebrated their silver wedding anniversary at the Soldier church parlors 
Sunday, May 27 by observing “open house”.  The event was postponed from 
Saturday, May 19 on account of confirmation services at Omaha at which the 
Darrell Parker daughters were confirmed.  The program consisted of three songs 
by the Parker girls, “The Lord’s Prayer”, “Always”, and “I Had a Talk With the 
Lord”, accompanied at the piano by Miss Alice Wingate; a recitation by Miss 
Nancy Hanson and John Nelsen, Virginia Hanson and Sharon Graetz, and remarks 
by Rev. E. E. Hoff.  The table was decorated in silver and blue with a large 
wedding cake as center piece.  Mr. and Mrs. Olson received a gift of silver 
and were presented with a silver tree made of  a tree limb with 96 quarters 
and silver dollar(sic) hanging on the limbs as leaves.  In the evening they 
all went to the Carl Kaatz home for a visit at which time the cake was 
served.  Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Christianson, Alfred’s 
only living aunt and uncle, who will celebrate their golden wedding March 4, 
1946.
	Mr. and Mrs. Olson were married at the south church on May 19, 1920 by 
the late Rev. H. K. Sunner.  Mrs. Sophie Johnson and Adolph Nelsen were 
witnesses.  They have one son, Cpl. Willard Olson who is serving with the army 
in the Pacific.
	Those present besides the honored couple were:
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Parker and family of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Welch and 
family of Audubon, Mr. and Mrs. Ival Outhouse of Crete, Nebr.; Mrs. Frank 
Wilson, Richard and Francine of Moorhead; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Olson and Evonne 
of Mapleton, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Olson and family of Denison, Mrs. G. M. 
Johnson of Oak Park, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Larson and family of Omaha, 
Mrs. Elaine Irwin of Omaha, Mrs. Hilda Thoreson of Cedar Falls, Mr. Chris 
Krogh of Ida Grove, Mrs. Martha Nelsen, Mr. and Mrs. Jalmer Nelsen and family, 
Adolph Swenson and family, Mrs. Adolph Nelsen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Guy 
Hanson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kaatz, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Olson, Mr. and 
Mrs. Geo. Britton and Karen, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Christianson, Mr. and Mrs. 
Wilbur Olson, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Graetz, Jere and Sharon, Mr. and Mrs. Page 
Carlson, Jane and Michael, Mrs. Dena Carlson, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cruikshank, 
Guy Garner, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Oldham, Mrs. Hilda C. Hanson, Miss Clara Berg, 
Miss Esther Berg, Mrs. Anna Evenson, Mr. and Mrs. Ole T. Hanson, Mrs. Angle 
Thompson, Miss Agnes Thoreson, Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Norby, Master Howard 
Middleton, Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Hoff and Marilyn, Miss Alice Wingate, Miss 
Jackie Dickinson, and Mrs. Sarah Johnson.
	The Sentinel extends congratulations and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. 
Olson.


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