Bio of TAASAAS, Olaf P. (m.1923) and CARLSON, Ruth E., Clay Co., MN

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Clay County Family Album

A History of Rural Clay County, MN, 1976



OLAF AND RUTH TAASAAS



September 1, 1923 Olaf P.Taasaas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl P. Taasaas of 

Holy Cross Township, married Ruth E. Carlson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

Carl Carlson of Wolverton, Minn. They started farming in March, 1924. 

Their place is located 2 1/2 miles east of Comstock. At first they farmed 

with horses. Their crops were wheat, corn, barley, oats, flax, potatoes 

and alfalfa and millet for hay. Later on they added soybeans. They have 

four children: Dorothy - Mrs. Floyd Butenhoff, (former teacher) living on 

a farm in Alliance Township. Three children, James, Ruth and Paul and one 

foster child Arlene. Beverly - Mrs.Virgil Olson (former nurse) also on a 

farmstead in Alliance Township. Three children, Deborah, Robert and 

Brenda. Melvin - employed at Western Electric in Chicago, Ill. Married to 

Betty Toth, two girls Tammy and Kathy. Carl - married to Ann Locher, 2 

girls, Deborah and Sharon, employed at St. Luke's Hospital at Fargo, 

North Dakota as Director of Housekeeping and Maintenance.

  Olaf spends much of his time raising strawberries and fishing in his 

retirement. They are members of the American Lutheran Church at Comstock, 

Minn. Their activities center around it now.

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