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Floy Irene Love Olson

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

March 30, 1871

DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

GENDER:

OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

Mrs. O. M. Olson, Irene Olson,

MAIDEN NAME:

Love

ETHNICITY:

KNOWN ADDRESS:

833 Walnut Street

Chicago

RELATED TO:

Oscar M Olson

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:

MARITAL STATUS:

Married

ROLE:

Audience Member

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

Warren Avenue Congregational Church

ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:

MORGUE:

Buffum

IDENTIFIED BY:

Oscar M Olson

OTHER NOTES:

Identified by husband. Mrs. Olson died with her lifelong friend, Bessie M. Stafford, and were co-workers in the Warren Avenue Congregational Church. Rev. Frank G. Smith conducted the services over each of the bodies. They were buried not thirty feet apart.

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2; Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124622076/floy-irene-olson

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup

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