Obit: Olson, Gilbert B. (1908 - 1988)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Olson, Lehman, Friese, Daniels, Schwarze, Holt, Strossborger, Schoonover

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 2/18/1988

Olson, Gilbert B. (22 August 1908 – 13 February 1988) With Flag

Seventy-nine-year-old Gilbert B. Olson, of Rice Lake, died Saturday, February 13, 1988, at Lakeview Medical Center. Funeral services were held Tuesday, February 16, at Bethany Lutheran Church; Rev. Allan Schoonover officiated with interment in Nora Cemetery, Rice Lake.

He was born August 22, 1908, at Abbotsford, WI. On May 4, 1935, he married Helen Lehman in Illinois. He served in the U.S. Air Force during WWII and later served in the Air Force Reserves, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was Assistant Postmaster in Rice Lake for a number of years. For a number of terms he served as Rice Lake’s 6th Ward Alderman and had been involved in various city and county committees, past member of the Barron County Board of Supervisors, Past Executive Secretary of the Rice Lake Chamber of Commerce, Past President of the Rice Lake Kiwanis Club in 1950 and their Past District Lieutenant Governor in 1953, Rice Lake American Legion, and a member of the Rice Lake Elks Lodge.

He is survived by his wife, Helen of Rice Lake; a son, David of Port Washington; a daughter, Judy Friese of Rice Lake; six grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; four step-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Kenneth of Neillsville and Oluf of Wisconsin Rapids; four sisters, Barbara Daniels of Cambria, Sally Schwarze and Fern Holt, both of Neillsville, Mildred Strossborger of Mesa, AZ; and cousins, nieces and nephews.

Appleyard’s Home for Funerals handled the arrangements.