Loren Olson
May 21, 1928-May 23, 2017
Loren Olson, age 89 of
Bottineau, died Tuesday
at a Bottineau nursing
home. His funeral will be
held on Saturday at 10:00
am at the Our Savior’s
Lutheran Church in Bot-
tineau. Visitation will be
Friday from 4:00 pm until
9:00 pm with a prayer ser-
vice at 7:00 pm at the
Nero Funeral Home in
Bottineau. Burial will be
at the Bethesda Cemetery
near Souris.
Loren Kermit Olson, a
son of Otto K. and Alma
(Joraanstad) Olson, was
born on May 21, 1928 at
Souris. He was raised
near Souris and graduated
from Souris High School
in 1946. The then attend-
ed Minot State University
and graduated in 1950
with a B.S. degree with a
major in Natural and Phy-
sical Science and Minors
in Math and Secondary
Education. He taught in
Butte, ND for a year until
enlisting in the US Air
Force in 1951. In 1952 he
entered Officer Candidate
School at Lackland Air
Force Base. He graduated
a 2nd Lt in the medical
service field and was as-
signed to the USAF Hos-
pital at the Travis Air
Force Base in California.
He served in Korea from
1955 until 1961 when he
was assigned Hanscom
AFB in MA.
On June 17, 1961, he
married Evelyn C. Larson
in Minneapolis. He was
stationed at Elmendorf
AFB from 1961 until 1964
when he moved to Wash-
ington, D.C. He attended
Yale University and gra-
duated with a Masters De-
gree in Public Health and
Hospital Administration.
He was then stationed at
Malcolm Grove AFB in
Bowie, MD, the Cannon
AFB in Clovis, NM and
Sheppard AFB in Wichita
Falls, TX where he retired
from the Air Force. He
served as a lay missionary
at the Phebe Hospital in
Liberia from 1972 until
1974. They moved to
Mohall in 1975 where he
was the administrator at
the Renville-Bottineau
Hospital. He retired in
1983 and they moved to
the farm near Souris. In
2013, Loren moved into
the Good Samaritan
Center in Bottineau.
Loren was a member of
the Our Savior’s Lutheran
Church in Bottineau. He
was a member of the Lan-
da VFW. He enjoyed
woodworking in his
workshop, playing board
and card games with his
family and shooting pool.