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MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 6/28/1945

MRS. LEO OLSON, 38, DIES EARLY FRIDAY
SERVICES FOR GREENWOOD WOMAN WILL BE CONDUCTED MONDAY

Greenwood--Mrs. Leo Olson, 38, a resident of Greenwood, Clark County, died at 5:05 a.m. Friday, June 22, 1945 at Bradley Memorial Hospital, Madison, where she was a patient the past week. She had been in poor health all winter.

The body is lying in state at the Schiller Funeral Home and tomorrow it will be taken to the Leo Olson home, where funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, followed by a 2 o'clock service at Trondhjem Lutheran Church. The Rev. M. K. Aaberg will officiate at the rites, and interment will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Olson, the former Marie Baron, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Baron, was born in Thorp, Taylor (now Clark) County, Feb. 28, 1907. The family moved to Chicago and then to Greenwood, returning to Chicago several years later.

Her marriage to Leo Olson took place Dec. 27, 1929, in Chicago, where they lived for a year before coming to Greenwood to make their home on the present Olson farm, 4 miles northeast of Greenwood.

Surviving are her husband and three sons, Leonard, 16, Delmond, 11, and Rodger, 4. Also surviving are her mother, Mrs. Andrew Baron two married sisters in Chicago, Elsie and Violet and her brother, Walter, Chicago. Her father and a sister, May, preceded her in death.