Agnes C. Olson
May 27, 1920 - Dec. 14, 2006
BENSON -- Agnes C. Olson, 86, of Benson died Thursday at Minnewaska Lutheran Home in Starbuck.
The service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Pilgrim Congregational Church in Benson. Burial will be at the Benson City Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Zniewski Funeral Home in Benson and for one hour prior to the service at the church on Wednesday.
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She was born May 27, 1920, in Mandt Township, Chippewa County, to Hans and Bertha Nilson. She grew up in Mandt Township and attended country school and the Morris School of Agriculture.
She married Clyde Olson on Jan. 1, 1942, at the Big Bend parsonage. They moved to a farm in Swenoda Township. She was a homemaker. They lived on the farm for 59 years and moved to Scofield Place in Benson in 2001. She moved to the Minnewaska Lutheran Home in Starbuck in 2006. She was a 4-H leader of the County Liners 4-H Club, a member of the Swenoda Mix Masters Homemaker's Club and was a work unit chairman for 17 years at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in Benson.
She is survived by her children: Elaine Mitteness of Benson, Ronald Olson of Benson, Rosalie (and Gary) Minor of Plymouth, Patty Pederson of Maple Grove, Kathy (and Gary) Svingen of Benson; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband; three sisters, two in infancy; and eight brothers, one in infancy.
