Glenn A. Olson

Glenn A. Olson MUSCATINE, Iowa - Glenn A. Olson, 98, Muscatine, died Friday, August 28, 2009, at the Wapello Nursing and Rehab Center. Funeral Service will be 11 a.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Home for Funeral and Cremation Services. Reverend David Ivie will officiate. Inurnment will be at the Muscatine Memorial Park Mausoleum. Following the memorial service a time of food and fellowship will be held at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Community Room. Visitation will be from 10:30-11 a.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at the funeral home. Cremation was officiated by the Life Transition and Cremation Center. Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church in his memory. Glenn was born on August 17, 1911, in Monmouth, Illinois, the son of William H. and Anna Christine Chinberg Olson. He married Florence Gertrude Frymire on August 10, 1933, in Monmouth, Illinois. He farmed for 27 years near Little York, Ill. prior to moving to Muscatine where he worked for Huttig's Sash and Door as a foreman for 16 years, he later worked at Muscatine General Hospital prior to his retirement. He was a member of the Oddfellows an...[more]

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Rebecca's in Little York and West Liberty-Muscatine chapters. He was a member of the Little York school board for a number of years. He was an elder for the Cedar Creek United Presbyterian Church, a member of the Warren County, Illinois, Farm Bureau board. He was active with the Lincoln Blvd. meal site in Muscatine. He was an avid mall walker, inside and out, a member of the McDonald's Coffee Group, and the First Presbyterian Church, Muscatine. He and his wife moved to Lutheran Homes Assisted Living in 2003, he remained there until 2008, when he moved to Wapello Nursing and Rehab Center. He will be deeply missed by his children, Glenn Andrew Andy Olson and wife, Gladys, of Aiken, South Carolina, Patricia Pat Khanna and husband, Pran, of Iowa City, Richard Dick Olson and wife, Colleen, of Windsor, Connecticut, and Joyce Williams and husband, Sheldon of Columbus Junction; nine grandchildren, Glenn Olson Jr., Gary and Greg Olson, Nicole and Maya Khanna, Andrea and Rebecca Olson and Sam and Scott Williams; and seven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife in 2004, two brothers, Carl and Frank Olson, and a sister, Grace Johnson.