Published: April 30, 2008 11:53 am            

Selma Elaine (Wiese) Olson

Selma Elaine (Wiese) Olson, 86, died Monday, April 28, 2008, in her home in Stillwater. The family will greet friends from 7 until 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Strode Funeral Home. Funeral services and celebration of her life will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Strode Funeral Home Chapel with Kent Houck and Matt Mills officiating. Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

She was born Oct. 13, 1921, in Manning, Crawford County, Iowa, to William T. and Able Antonia (Kuhl) Wiese. She was the youngest of four children. Selma graduated from high school in Manning and later married Kenneth G. Olson on Feb. 12, 1941, in Denison, Iowa.

After their marriage, the Olsons operated a dairy farm in Botna, Iowa, until 1956 when they moved to Black Forest, Colo., to operate an egg ranch. They moved to Stillwater in 1961 to own and manage rental properties, which included Varsity Village Mobile Home Park.

She was preceded in death by her parents and siblings.

She is survived by her husband, Kenneth G. Olson of Stillwater; four daughters, Judy Larsen and her husband, Matt, of Plano, Texas, Barbara Payne and her husband, Richard, of Edmond, Jane Carter and her husband, Wendell Glen, of San Antonio, Texas and Kaye Duncan and her husband, Dan, of Stillwater; three grandsons, Robert H. Duncan and his wife, Mica, of Edmond, David Duncan of Stillwater and Christopher Carter of San Antonio, Texas; and many nieces and nephews.

        

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