Obit: Olson, Robert #2 (1934 - 1955)

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Surnames: Olson

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 03/10/1955

Olson, Robert 32 (1934 - 7 MAR 1955)

Robert Olson, 20, Rt. 3, was killed and two other men seriously injured in a head on collision of a car and truck near Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.) Monday.

Olson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Olson, Rt. 3, was driver of a pickup truck that collided with a car about 6:15 a.m., 5 ½ miles northwest of Greenwood.  His brother Clarence Olson, Jr., 19, who was riding with him, and James Petranovich, 24, Rt. 2, driver of the car, are in "fair condition" in a Marshfield hospital.

The younger Olson has had a fracture of the upper right leg, many cuts and bruises, and badly frozen feet.  Petranovich had a bad fracture of the left hip and was suffering from shock.

The father of the two Olsons found the accident when he went in search of the pair about 7 a.m.  They had failed to return from a neighboring farm where they tended some stock quartered there.  He found his oldest son dead behind the wheel and Clarence Jr., lying in the road beside the truck.

Lorris Dusso, Greenwood, Clark County Traffic officer, said Petranovich was on his way to work at a cheese factory when the two vehicles met at the crest of a hill.  Petranovich wandered away from the accident into a nearby farm home where the owners were out in the barn milking.  He sat in the house for some time, he told authorities, before returning to the accident scene about the same time the father of the Olsons arrived there.