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Bertha Wangen (Olson)

Also Known As: "Bertha"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States
Death: November 23, 1977 (84)
West Salem, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States
Place of Burial: Lanesboro, Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John S. Olson; John Skarass Olson; Ali Olson; John S Olson; Mary O, Olson and 3 others
Wife of Edward Olsen Wangen and Edward O Wangen
Mother of Private; Private; Private; Private; Private and 20 others
Sister of Private; Private; Clara Olson; Louis J. Olson; Private and 13 others

Managed by: Per-Uno Iversen
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About Bertha Wangen

Lanesboro Leader December 1 1977
Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Elstad Lutheran Church for Mrs. Bertha Wangen, 84, who died Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Mulder Health Care Facility in West Salem, Wis. Rev. R. K. Livdahl officiated. Burial was in the church cemetery.
The former Bertha Olson, she was born March 12, 1893, in Fillmore County, the daughter of John and Mary Olson. On March 24, 1917, she married Edward Wangen. They farmed in the Lanesboro area until retiring.
Servivors are her husband; five daughters, Mrs. Ellert (Marian) Bothun, Austin, Minn., Mrs. Juel (Ella) Olstad, La Crosse, Wis., Mrs. James (Ruth) Beatty, Rochester, Minn., Mrs. Erlyn (Orillie) Iverson, Byron, Minn., Mrs. Marlin (Gladys) Zilmer, St. James, Minn.; five sons, James and Kenneth, Lanesboor, Palmer of Harmony, Peter of Canton, and Merlin, Sparta, Wis.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and two brothers, Alfred and Selmer Olson, both of Lanesboro. Six brothers and one sister preceded her in death.

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Bertha Wangen's Timeline

1893
March 12, 1893
Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States
1917
June 17, 1917
Family Farm, Lanesboro, Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States
June 17, 1917
Lanesboro, Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States of America
1919
April 4, 1919
Lanesboro, Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States
April 4, 1919
Amherst, Fillmore, Minnesota, USA
1921
January 9, 1921
Lanesboro, Fillmore, Minnesota, USA