OBITUARY: Frances E. Olson, Worth County, Iowa



[ Mason City Globe Gazette Online Obituaries ]
Thursday, May 6, 1999 


                       FRANCES EVELYN OLSON

NORTHWOOD - Frances Evelyn Olson, 88, of Northwood, died Tuesday (May 4,
1999) at the Fairview Nursing Home in Dodge Center, Minn.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the United Methodist
Church in Northwood, with the Rev. Richard Jensen officiating. Burial
will be in the Sunset Rest Cemetery in Northwood.

Friends may call from noon until service time on Friday at the church.

The family of Frances Evelyn Olson has requested that memorial contributions
be made to the United Methodist Church in Northwood in her name.

Conner Colonial Chapel, 99 11th St. South, Northwood, is in charge of the
arrangements.

Frances Evelyn Olson was born on Jan. 7, 1911, in Dodge Center, Minn., the
daughter of Simon and Bessie (Campbell) Schuster. She attended and received
her education in the Dodge Center school system, graduating from Dodge
Center High School. She was united in marriage to Harold Olson on June 1,
1932, in Dodge Center. He preceded her in death in August, 1984. After
their marriage they lived in Dodge Center, where they farmed and owned
and operated a restaurant until 1940, when they moved to Austin, Minn.,
where she worked at Hormel until her retirement, moving to Northwood in
1974.

She enjoyed knitting and traveling, but her great love and enjoyment was
her grandchildren and watching them participate in their sports activities.

Frances had been a resident of the Fairview Nursing Home in Dodge Center
since October 1998.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Northwood, and the church
circle.

Left to cherish her memory is a son, Jerry Olson and his wife, Suzanne, of
Northwood; four grandchildren, Kym Thorson and her husband, John, of
Deltona, Fla., Kory Olson and his wife, Sherry, of Manly, Kari Redman and
her husband, Ben, of Phoenix, Ariz., and Kristy Lilly and her husband,
Charles, of Lathionia, Ga.; 10 great-grandchildren, Kirsten Thorson, Scott
Thorson, Bryan Koster, Jayson Olson, Shayne Olson, McKenzie Redman, Casey
Redman, Chaz Lilly, Garett Lilly and Carter Lilly; three sisters, Lavonne
Day and her husband, Ladd, of Los Osos, Calif., Virginia Keller of
Mantorville, Minn., and Leona Osborn of Waseca, Minn.; as well as other
relatives and friends.

Besides her husband, Harold, she was also preceded in death by her parents,
two brothers, Lyle Schuster and Hilton Schuster, and two brothers-in-law,
Wilbur Keller and Ross Osborn.

Conner Colonial Chapel, (515) 324-1543.




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