Obit for OLSON, Mattie I. (PETERSON) (b.1895 d.1987), Watonwan Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Submitted: June 2004 ========================================================================= St. James Plaindealer 2 April 1987 Mattie I. Olson Mattie Ida Olson, 92, died Monday in pleasant View Good Samaritan Center. Funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday in First Lutheran church, with Rev. Stephanie Frey and Rev. Larry Wohlrabe officiating. Organist for the service is Judy Munson, and soloist, Sandy Sunde. Visitation continues until 9 p.m. in Pease Funeral Home, as well as at the church one hour prior t the service. Pallbearers are Steven Olson, David Olson, Eugene Zarn, Kenneth Henderson, Chauncey Brua, and Dennis Schmillen. Burial is in Mt. Hope cemetery. The daughter of Alfred and Anna (Henderson) Peterson, she was born March 6, 1895 at St. James, where she grew up and attended. After graduation from high school, she lived at St. Paul and worked in the office of the Great Northern Railroad. On June 7, 1922 she married John Olson at St. James. They lived at Ormsby, St. James, Crookston, and in 1944 moved to St. Paul. She worked at Raymond Laboratories for a couple of years, and for 16 years worked at the Golden Rule department store at St. Paul until retiring in 1960. IN 1970 she moved back to St. James, and had been a resident of Pleasant View since 1984. She was a member of First Lutheran church at St. James, and the Crookston VFW auxiliary. Nine brothers and a sister preceded her in death. Survivors include two sons, Wayne of St. James and Jerome of Fridley, four grandchildren and four great grandchildren.