Agnes Karen GUNDERSON
- Born: 18 Jun 1908, La Crosse County, WI
- Marriage: Norman Theodore OLNESS on 31 Aug 1935 in La Crosse County, WI
- Died: 3 Dec 1993, Winona County, MN at age 85 1
Noted events in her life were:
• Census: La Crosse Ward 10, District 107, 1910, La Crosse County, WI. line 87
1603 82 83 Gunderson Sever head 50 m2 4 Norway Norway Norway i1881
---- Meline wife 37 m1 3 3 Norway Norway Norway
---- Sequerd son 3 WI Norway Norway
---- Agnes dau 2 WI Norway Norway
---- Esthe dau 4/12 WI Norway Norway
---- Gilman son WI Norway Norway
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• Census: La Crosse Ward 10, District 100, 1920, La Crosse County, WI. line 59
1603 107 113 Gunderson Syver 59
--- Maline 47
--- Karne A 12
--- Oscar N 10
--- Alice K 9
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• Census: La Crosse, District 22, 1930, La Crosse County, WI. line 42
1603 330 387 Gunderson Sever 70 m35 i1880
--- Malina 59 m35 i1891
--- Agnes K 21 stenographer
--- Oscar F 20
--- Alice K 18 nurse
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• Cemetery: Arendahl Cemetery, 1993, Fillmore County, MN. OLNESS, AGNES K. 1908 - 1993 WIFE OF NORMAN T.
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• Obituary, 1993, Fillmore County, MN. Agnes Olness
Agnes K. Olness, 85, of Peterson, who farmed in the Peterson area with her husband for many years, died Friday, December 3, 1993, at Community Memorial Hospital in Winona.
The former Agnes Gunderson was born June 18, 1908, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and grew up in that area. She graduated from La Crosse Logan High School and Wisconsin Business University in La Crosse. She was a stenographer for Sisson C. for seven years. She married Norman Olness on August 31, 1935, in La Crosse, and the couple farmed in the Peterson area. Mr. Olness died in 1969.
Mrs. Olness is survived by a son, Andrew of Peterson; four daughters, Karen Torjesen of Kenyon, Julianna Wright of Raleigh, North Carolina, Sigrid Kilcullen of Vienna, Virginia, and Elizabeth Emerson of Minneapolis; 11 grandchildren; and a sister, Alice Little of Modesto, California.
Private family services were scheduled. Burial was in Arendahl Lutheran Cemetery in rural Peterson.
Cook Funeral Home in Rushford was in charge of arrangements.
Agnes married Norman Theodore OLNESS, son of Andrew Olae OLNESS and Julia Knudsen BAKKEN, on 31 Aug 1935 in La Crosse County, WI. (Norman Theodore OLNESS was born on 11 May 1904 in Fillmore County, MN 2 and died on 4 Jul 1969 in Olmsted County, MN 3 4.) The cause of his death was Carcinoma, Lung.
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Marriage Notice, 1935, Fillmore County, MN. Norman Olness In Marriage Rites Last Saturday
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Miss Agnes Gunderson and Norman Olness Exchange Vows In Church Ceremony
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The beauty of simplicity marked the marriage ceremony which united Miss Agnes Gunderson, daughter of Mrs. S. Gunderson of La Crosse and Norman Olness, son of Mrs. Julia Olness of Rushford. Rev. E. O. Vik officiated at the single rung service, which was performed in the presence of immediate relatives and friends, at the Trinity Lutheran Church at La Crosse at four o'clock Saturday afternoon, August 31.
To the strains of the Lohengrin's Wedding march, played by Mrs. Ed Syverson, Miss Gunderson, dressed in white, and carrying an arm bouquet of roses and pon pons, accompanied by her bridesmaid, Miss Mildred Welsh, who was dressed in green and carried a yellow gladioli, were met at the alter by the groom, Norman Olness and best man Conrad Olness, his brother.
Following the ceremony the bridal party and guests partook of a wedding dinner which was served at the home of the bride's mother at 1603 Liberty Street, La Crosse. The young couple then left for a short wedding trip to Chicago.
Mrs. Olness is a secretary at the Sisson-Silstad-Haugen wholesale company at La Crosse, while Mr. Olness in partnership with his brother, owns and operates the Olness Transfer.
The Record is joined by the many friends of the young couple in extending congratulations and best wishes for future success and happiness.
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