Wright County IA Archives Obituaries.....Gjerstad, Olive Josephine September 26, 1993
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	Olive Josephine Gjerstad, 76, Ames, died Sunday of heart failure at 
Northcrest Health Care Center on September 26, 1993. A funeral service will be 
at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Bethesda Lutheran Church, with Rev. Dave Nerdig 
officiating.  Burial will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Union Cemetery, Humboldt.
	Olive Gjerstad was born at Dayton Township, Wright County, on November 
14, 1916 to Gerhard and Anna (Vorre) Gjerstad.  She attended Eagle Grove High 
School Waldorf College and Iowa State Teacher’s College at Cedar Falls.  She 
received a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.  She also had 
attended the University of Iowa and the University of Indiana.  A lifelong 
teacher, she taught in Iowa from 1935 to 1945; with the National Lutheran 
Council from 1945 to 1946; at the American School in Venezuela from 1947 to 
1951; with the National Lutheran Council again from 1952 to 1955; in Iowa from 
1955 to 1961; and in Illinois from 1961 to 1982, when she retired and moved to 
Ames.
	
	She is survived by three sisters, Alice Lane of Dakota City, Lucile 
Wagner of Eagle Grove, and Dorothy Anderson of Paton; and a brother, Earl 
Gjerstad of Dodge City, Kan.
	She was preceded in death by her brothers Robert and Harold and her 
sister Marquerite.
	

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