1914
Gilma
2009
Gilma Olson
June 7, 1914 — April 6, 2009
Gilma G. Olson, age 94, of Willmar and formerly of Murdock, died Monday afternoon, April 6, at Bethesda Pleasant View Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Salem Covenant Church in rural Pennock. Interment will be in the Frank Lake Covenant Cemetery in rural Murdock. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Friday at the Sunburg Funeral Home and one hour prior to the service at the church. Memorials are preferred to the Frank Lake Cemetery Association or Rice Hospice.
Gilma was born June 7, 1914, in Pope County, north of Sunburg, Minnesota, to Sigvald and Christine (Medalen) Hoff. She was baptized and confirmed at the Sunburg Free Lutheran Church. She attended school in the rural Brooten schools and in Emerson, North Dakota. On November 14, 1934, she married Tilbert Olson.. They lived and farmed north of Murdock until their retirement in 1979. In 2005, Gilma moved from the farm to Sunrise Village Assisted Living in Willmar. She was a member of the Sunrise Beauties and the Ding-a-lingers at Sunrise Village. She also was a past member of Frank Lake Covenant Church and a current member of Salem Covenant Church where she was active in Women Ministries.
Gilma was a typical farm wife, helping out in the barn and in the fields when necessary. She planted a garden and canned the vegetables to eat. She always had a beautiful flower garden and indoor plants, which thrived under her care. Gilma also enjoyed making lefse and baking. The scent of homemade bread and apple pie was a familiar aroma in her kitchen. Gilma was also a seamstress and liked to embroider, crochet and quilt.
She is survived by her three children, Clarette Nelson of Columbia Heights, Gary (and Deborah) Olson of Brooten and Janice (and Phillip) Damhof of Blomkest; ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers, Stanley Hoff of Willmar and Ronald Hoff of Brooten; four sisters, Cora (and Floyd) Myhre of Kerkhoven, Audrey Sondrol of Sunburg, Marilyn Zilmer of Babbitt and Glenda Paulson of Brooten; a sister-in-law, Sandy Hoff of St. Paul, besides other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Tilbert in 1987; four brothers, Clifford, Willard, Oral and Kenneth and special friend, Norman Haugen.
Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Salem Covenant Church in rural Pennock. Interment will be in the Frank Lake Covenant Cemetery in rural Murdock. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Friday at the Sunburg Funeral Home and one hour prior to the service at the church. Memorials are preferred to the Frank Lake Cemetery Association or Rice Hospice.
Gilma was born June 7, 1914, in Pope County, north of Sunburg, Minnesota, to Sigvald and Christine (Medalen) Hoff. She was baptized and confirmed at the Sunburg Free Lutheran Church. She attended school in the rural Brooten schools and in Emerson, North Dakota. On November 14, 1934, she married Tilbert Olson.. They lived and farmed north of Murdock until their retirement in 1979. In 2005, Gilma moved from the farm to Sunrise Village Assisted Living in Willmar. She was a member of the Sunrise Beauties and the Ding-a-lingers at Sunrise Village. She also was a past member of Frank Lake Covenant Church and a current member of Salem Covenant Church where she was active in Women Ministries.
Gilma was a typical farm wife, helping out in the barn and in the fields when necessary. She planted a garden and canned the vegetables to eat. She always had a beautiful flower garden and indoor plants, which thrived under her care. Gilma also enjoyed making lefse and baking. The scent of homemade bread and apple pie was a familiar aroma in her kitchen. Gilma was also a seamstress and liked to embroider, crochet and quilt.
She is survived by her three children, Clarette Nelson of Columbia Heights, Gary (and Deborah) Olson of Brooten and Janice (and Phillip) Damhof of Blomkest; ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers, Stanley Hoff of Willmar and Ronald Hoff of Brooten; four sisters, Cora (and Floyd) Myhre of Kerkhoven, Audrey Sondrol of Sunburg, Marilyn Zilmer of Babbitt and Glenda Paulson of Brooten; a sister-in-law, Sandy Hoff of St. Paul, besides other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Tilbert in 1987; four brothers, Clifford, Willard, Oral and Kenneth and special friend, Norman Haugen.
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