Obit: Olson, Freda (1878 - 1952)

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Surnames: Olson, Kellar

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 01/17/1952

Olson, Freda (20 NOV 1878 - 8 JAN 1952)

Funeral services for Mrs. Freda Olson, 73, who died Tuesday in the Memorial Hospital at Stanley, were held Friday afternoon in the Congregational Church.  The Rev. H. D. Wagner officiated and burial was made in the family lot in the Colby (Colby, Clark Co. Wis.) Cemetery.

Mrs. Olson was born Nov. 20, 1878, in Germany, and came to the United States, settling in Colby, with her parents when a child.  In 1897 she was married to Edward Olson, a railroad engineer, at Abbotsford, Wis.  Before moving to a farm in the Town of Mayville (Clark Co., Wis.) in 1918, they lived for a few years in Chippewa Falls.  Mr. Olson died in 1931.

She is survived by a son, Eugene, on the home farm; a daughter, Mrs. Richard (Margaret) Kellar, Middleton; and a grandson.

At the service, a quartet composed of Mrs. Alfred Thompson, Mrs. Duwayne Bulgrin, Wilford Marcott, and the Rev. Mr. Wagner, accompanied by Mrs. Lee Smiley, sang "The Old Rugged Cross," "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," and "Abide With Me."

Pallbearers included Oscar Koerner, Albert Schultz, Clarence Schultz, Mike Revie, Albert Lindau and Henry Lindau and Henry Lindau.

Mrs. Elvira Schultz, Mrs. Elsie Schultz, Mrs. Leona Keugler, Mrs. Verna Rosenquist, Mrs. Laverne Klemetson, and Mrs. Art Armminger, were in charge of floral arrangements.