Gerald Olson
| Date of Interment or Death | 11/03/1958 |
|---|---|
| Location | Garden of the Christus |
| Block and Lot | 033B |
| Grave | 3 |
Obituary
Gerald Olson, Crash Victim, Funeral Friday
Funeral services for Gerald Olson, Sr., well known Richland County farmer who was killed Monday night when his pickup truck left the highway at the west edge of Wahpeton will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in the Mooreton Lutheran Church. Mr. Olson, 59, died as the result of a broken neck and thus became Richland County’s fifth highway fatality of the year. Rev. H. E. Rasmussen, Jr., church pastor and Rev. Marshall Moen, Duluth, Minn., former pastor of the church, will officiate at the funeral.
Military rites will be conducted by the Galchutt American Legion Post and interment will be in Fairview Memorial Gardens at Wahpeton. Vertin Funeral Home of Wahpeton is handling the funeral arrangements.
Pallbearers will be C. W Miller, Frank Belinsky, C. J. Klosterman, Melvin Johnson, Robert Ford and Lester Ward.
Mr. Olson has been active in REA work in this area for several years and was also well known for his political leadership, being a familiar figure at Nonpartisan League meetings here and throughout the state.
During the formation, Olson was a key figure in the Rich-Cooperative, Inc., (RSR), serving as its president during the war years. He was also manager of the co-op for sometime.
He had served as president of the Central Power Cooperative, the power generating agency, with its plant at Vodaire, N.D.
Gerald C. Olsen, son of Theodore and Emaline Olson, was born at Harmony, Minn., July 13, 1889 where he attended the schools and spent his youth. He was baptized and confirmed in the Greenfield Lutheran church there.
During World War I he served in the U. S. Army and following his discharge from service returned to Harmony and married Gorada Haugerud on May 9, 1923 at Harmony and they farmed there.
The Olson family came to Richland County in 1928 to a farm near Mooreton in Ibsen Township. They moved to Wahpeton in 1953 but he continued his farming operations near Mooreton.
Mr. Olson was a trustee of Mooreton Lutheran church, a past commander of the Galchutt Legion Post and past district commander, a member of the Mooreton Enterprize, and a director of Fairview Memorial Gardens.
He leaves Mrs. Olson, two sons, Gerald, Jr., and Manford, both Mooreton; three daughters Mrs. James (Phyllis) Sheridan, Fertile, Minn.; Mrs. John (Ada) Flippo, Fredericksburg, Va., and Mrs. William (Lois) Clark, Anchorage, Alaska; his mother, a sister, Mrs. Reuben Schrabec, Austin, Minn., and 11 grandchildren. His father, a brother and a sister preceded him in death.
The body will lie in state at Vertin Funeral Home Thursday afternoon and evening and until 11 a.m. Friday.
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Location
The Garden of the Christus is located in the Memorial Gardens, which comprises the northern half of the cemetery.