OBITUARY - ALTA MAE OLESON

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Source: "Lewis River News," Woodland, Cowlitz Co., WA, Thursday, 12 Aug 1959


Oleson Service held Tuesday

Services were held Tuesday afternoon in the First Presbyterian Church for Alta
May Oleson, who died in a Portland hospital Saturday after a long illness.


Mrs. Oleson had been a Woodland resident for 20 years, helping her husband
Francis start Olesons store and operate it 12 years.  She served on both the
Woodland Town Council and Park Board, and was a member of the Presbyterian
Church.
 

She was born Aug. 22, 1898 at Montesano.
 

Besides her husband Francis (Fox), Mrs. Oleson is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Leona Foglia of Woodland and Mrs. Shirley Jungk of Ridgefield; two
brothers, Ransom Minkler of Aberdeen, and Victor Minkler of Shelton, Wisc.;
three sisters, Mrs. Mina Taylor, Paisley, Ore., Mrs. Pearl Ketchum, Mill City,
Ore., and Mrs. Lowly Prescott, Grand Rapids, Mich., and four grandchildren.


The services were conducted by the Rev. Lee Andrews at 1 p.m.  Vault internment
followed at Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Vancouver.  Woodland Funeral Home was
in charge.