Jane Olson, 74, Oklahoma, formerly of Valley Springs, S.D., died of cancer Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at Integris Bass Hospital, Enid, Okla.
Services were Thursday, Aug. 16, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The Revs. Kenneth Wade and Bob Shafer officiated. Graveside services were at Karoma Cemetery, Goltry, Okla.
Jane Joneson was born to August and Johanna Joneson on April 18, 1927, on a farm near Valley Springs. She attended Sunnywood country school and graduated from Valley Springs High School in 1945. She joined the Army Cadet Nurse Corps and graduated from Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D., with her diploma in nursing in 1948.
She married Harvey Olson on Aug. 4, 1950, at Beaver Valley Lutheran Church in Valley Springs. She loved her nursing profession and also worked alongside her husband at Olson Animal Hospital.
Survivors include her husband, five children and their spouses, Dwight and Dianne Olson, Bruce and Joanne Crain, all of Enid, Tom and Barbara Penrose, Tulsa, Okla., Bryce and Liesl Olson, Lubbock, Texas, and Kasey and Laura Lynn Simpson, Cushing, Okla.; 14 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Myron and Margaret Joneson, Dell Rapids, S.D., and Harold and Dee Joneson, Valley Springs; and two sisters and one brother-in-law, Alice Lee, Sioux Falls, and Ralph and Lois Hansen, Beaver Creek.
Mrs. Olson was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters and one granddaughter.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Oklahoma Bible Academy in Enid and Bungoma Bible School and Orphanage in Kenya, Africa.
Brown-Cummings Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.