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Orland C. Olson Jr., 69, of Beloit, WI, died Friday, July 28, 2017 in Beloit Memorial Hospital. He was born August 25, 1947 in Viroqua, WI, the son of Orland C. and Loraine E. (Zillig) Olson Sr. Orland was a 1966 graduate of Beloit Memorial High School. Orland was formerly employed by Cretex now known as Hansen’s Pipe & Precast in South Beloit, IL, as a welder, retiring in 2009. He was a big Green Bay Packer and NASCAR fan. Orland enjoyed sports and in his younger years he enjoyed golfing, hunting, softball and hot rods. Orland was a member of Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church. Survivors include his 2 sons; sisters; uncle; aunt; nieces; nephew; several great nieces and great nephews; and special friend. He was predeceased by his parents.

OLSON, Orland C Jr (I19571)

15982

Orlen worked for the Hy-Line Poultry Farm.

Lived in Janesvillle, Minnesota, in 1988.

In August of 1975, he was involved in a “traffic mishap” near Neillsville, Wisconsin. He was driving a truck that was towing a mobile home when he struck two highway signs while making a turn at Highways 10 and 73.

ORLEN HARRY DAVIDSON, age 98, of Janesville died on Friday, June 10, 2022 at Whispering Creek in Janesville.

Born on October 17, 1923 near Elko in Scott County, Minnesota, he was the son of Adolph and Inga (Bergstrom) Davidson. Dave, as he was known since high school, served in the Navy until WWII ended. He married Lorraine Sammon on May 29, 1947 and began his business career in Faribault as manager of Wilson Co. of Chicago. When the plant closed, they moved to Owatonna where Dave began working for HyLine Poultry Farms, part of the large Pioneer Corn Corp. of Des Moines, IA. He quickly rose to management while he and Lorraine remodeled a farm, raised five children, and built an egg production business of their own. In 1966, Dave left HyLine and doubled production in his own business. He and Lorraine sold the business in 1976 and moved to Arizona for seven years before retiring in Janesville.

Dave had excellent organizational and problem-solving skills that he taught his children, contributing to their successes. Lorraine always said he could fix anything!

He is survived by his daughters, Joyce (Mark) Powell of Elysian, Gwen Davidson (Douglas Lubotsky) of Portland, OR, and Joan Davidson of Hollywood, FL and son, Gary (Debra) Davidson of Silver City, NM. He is also survived by seven grandchildren, Courtney (Terry) Strean, Alec Powell, Landis Davidson, Larisa (Jonathan) Wilson, Kai Davidson, Tai Davidson, and Indigo Davidson; and five great grandchildren, Allie and Arya Strean, Rohan, Khaimus, and Tiden Wilson.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife; one son, Vincent John; one sister, Lillian Gladys Aronson; and one brother, Arthur Maynard Davidson.

DAVIDSON, Orlen Harry (I13418)

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Ormestad?

Gro Olufsdatter (I38061)

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Orphaned when she was 16 according to her grandson.

In the 1940 census, she is shown as having had two years of high school.

LIEN, Ada SeEtta (I25064)

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Orville Finne was the most loving father, grandfather, brother and friend. He always put other people’s needs before his own and would do anything he could for others, even strangers. He passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones on Thursday, September 16th at the age of 78 after a 2 1/2 year battle with pancreatic cancer.

Orville was born to George and Norma (Esther) Finne on July 8th, 1943, in Owatonna, MN. After graduating from West Concord High School, he enlisted in the Air Force and served from 1961-1965. He was stationed at Sawyer Air Force Base in Michigan and then at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska. He returned to West Concord and worked at the State Hospital in Faribault for a few years and then sold life insurance for many years. He married Katherine Langerud in 1967 and they raised four children together. They were later divorced, but remained friends. Orville later drove taxi cab and limousine for Yellow Cab where he met his special friend, Margie Creech. They were together for 13 years before she passed away.

Orville loved his children and siblings dearly and was never afraid to say, “I love you very much” to them. His 10 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild were such a joy to him. He loved to play with them, tease them, take them fishing, and take them to the “Gucci warehouse”. Orville was an avid gardener, fisherman and collector/treasure hunter. If he was not at home, he was either gardening, fishing or finding a good deal somewhere. He was always willing to share his vegetables and help his neighbors, friends, and family. He knew a lot of random things and was always willing to share his knowledge, whether you wanted it or not. Orville’s kind heart, generosity, and sense of humor will be missed by everyone that knew him.

He is survived by his children, David, of Lake City, MN; Traci (Scott) Hammer, of Elgin, MN; Mitchell (Sara), of Eden Prairie, MN; and Jason (Lissa), of Mendota Heights, MN; his grandchildren, Lindsey (Zac) Webb, Hannah (Andy) Erickson, Nelson Finne, Isaac Hammer, Anya Hammer, Eleanor Finne, Johan, Greta, Kaia, and Gunnar Finne; great-grandchild Laurana Webb; daughter-in-law Nicole Finne, of Elgin, MN; siblings Anna Mae (Charles) Victor, of Marysville, OH; LuVerne (Paula), of West Concord, MN; Russell (Audrey), of West Concord, MN; and Ginger (Don) Tune, of New Richland, MN; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents.

A celebration of life will be held at the West Concord Historical Society on Sunday, September 26th from 1-4 pm with a remembrance at 3 pm. A private family burial will take place at Concord Cemetery at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to SEMCAC Senior Nutrition to support their wonderful Meals on Wheels program. The family would also like to send a special thank you to Erin Gilbertson for the wonderful care she provided to Dad for the last 2 1/2 years and also to all of the St. Croix Hospice aides and nurses who helped care for Dad.

FINNE, Orville Gene (I39389)

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Oscar Kenneth Kasa, Jr. - Entered into life on December 29, 1924 in Nerstrand, Minnesota. Passed away peacefully on May 17, 2012 in Carmichael, California. A Memorial Service with Full Military Honors will take place on Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 2:00pm at Mount Vernon Memorial Park - 8201 Greenback Lane, Fair Oaks, CA

KASA, Oscar Kenneth (I11132)

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Oscar registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Kaukauna. He was single and was a salesman for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in central Wisconsin. Oscar was described as tall and of medium build with blue eyes and brown hair. He had “defective eyes.”

In the 1920 census, he is probably the Oscar T Thompson living with his wife Veneta in Milwaukee. Although that Oscar’s father was said to be born in Wisconsin and his mother in Norway, the census-taker most likely got things turned around because the Milwaukee Oscar’s occupation, salesman of rubber goods, is the same as our Oscar had in the 1917 draft registration.

In the 1930 census, Oscar is back in Neenah. (He is indexed as Oren T Thompson with wife Weneta.) Oscar is now doing well. He is a staff superintendent in a paper mill, lives in a house that he owns and that is worth $8000 (338 East Columbia Avenue), and employs a 26 year-old live-in servant named Hazel Belling. Veneta’s mother, Mae Beck, a 62 year-old widow, also lives with them. Oscar was not a veteran.

In the 1940 census, he and Veneta and Dorothy live in Neenah. Oscar is staff superintendent at a paper mill. They live in the same house, 338 East Columbia Avenue, in which they all lived five years earlier. Included in their household is Una Beck, a 40 year-old divorcee who had lived in Milwaukee in 1935. She is called “sister-in-law” and is an unemployed public school teacher. Oscar is a college graduate, Veneta and Una have two years of college.

In his World War II draft registration, he was employed by Kimberly Clark of Neenah.

THOMPSON, Oscar Theodore (I13820)

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Oscar was a veteran of World War I.

Registered in Mercer County. Of Norwegian parents. Occupation printer. Enlisted in Company I, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Wahpeton on June 1, 1917. Called into Federal service on 15 July 1917. Served in Company I, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (Company I, 164th Infantry) until discharge. Overseas from 15 Dec 1917 to 26 Feb 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa, as a Corporal.

THUE, Oscar Helmer (I14363)

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Oskar Ellingboe changed his name to Arthur Carney and invented a preposterous backstory in which he also changed his birth date and family history.

Ed says Oskar spent his youth in Lakeville, went into the service, and later became a Federal Prison guard at the penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. He lived in Leavenworth until he died.

Not listed with his mother and siblings in New Market Twp in the 1905 state census.

The 1910 census contains no Arthur Carney born in Kentucky within 5 years of 1887.

He was not listed in the WWI draft registrations, either as Ellingboe or as Carney.

In the 1920 census, a 33 year-old Arthur W. Carney is shown as a soldier at Fort Leavenworth. His native state is shown as Kentucky and both of his parent had been born in Kentucky. Thus, he was claiming to have been born in Kentucky several years before he married Marie.

In the 1925 Kansas census, he and Marie are living with other Hamiltons in Leavenworth. Arthur claims to be 38 years old, born in Kentucky, and working for or on the “golf links” at Ft. Leavenworth.

This same Arthur Carney, claiming to be a native of Kentucky, was living in Ohio at the time of the 1930 census. This Ohio Arthur Carney was a prison guard at the prison (U.S. Industrial Reformatory) in Scioto, Ross County, Ohio. He was married, 43, with a wife Marie, 37. This Arthur Carney was a veteran of the World War.

In the 1940 census, he was the 53 year-old Arthur W. Carney living with his wife Marie, 47, in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a prison officer for the federal prison. Arthur claimed to have had two years of college. Marie had an eighth-grade education. The couple owned their house, worth $4000, at 712 Ninth Avenue (or 712 Central Avenue). They had lived in Leavenworth five years earlier although not at that address. The census-taker talked to both Arthur and Marie. Arthur specifically claimed that he was born in Kentucky. Thus, likely in Marie’s presence, he claimed to have been born in Kentucky, a claim Marie would have known to be false because she had met his family in Minnesota.

A note in the Leavenworth Times in August of 1952 said that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Carney had returned home after several weeks visit with relatives in Minnesota.

According to city directories, he and Marie lived at 712 9th Avenue in Leavenworth between 1934 and his death in 1960. The couple is shown as briefly living in Alburquerque, New Mexico, in 1955, at which time he was associated with the U.S. Air Force.

A database of obituaries in the Leavenworth Times newspaper shows the death of an Arthur W. Carney in the November 20, 1960, edition.

According to his entry in Find A Grave, which includes a photo of his gravestone, he was Arthur Wilbur Carney, b. 15 Jun 1886 and died 18 Nov 1960. According to the inscription on that gravestone, apparently one supplied by the government, Arthur had been a sergeant in Company B, 88th Infantry of Kansas in World War I.

In the document requesting a military headstone for Arthur, signed by Marie H. Carney on 8 Jun 1961, of 712 Ninth Avenue, Leavenworth, the particulars of his military history are listed: Service number 341371 or 341271, Pension claim number C 122 18 08, Enlisted 10-12-1916 in Washington, Discharged 10-11-1920 at Ft. Leavenworth. He had been a Sgt, Co. B, 88th Infantry, 19th Division, U.S. Army. His date of birth was 15 Jun 1886. The branch of the service that most conforms to this description is the 88th Division, “a National Army Division organized September 4, 1917, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, from men drafted from the states of Minnesota, Iowa. the Dakotas and Illinois. Later when these first drafts had been transferred in large measure to Camps Cody, Bowie, Doniphan, Pike, Travis and Gordon, newly drafted men from these original states, together with men from Missouri and Nebraska, constituted the bulk of the Division.”

One of his nieces says: I've known since I was a little girl that he had changed his name. I think I heard that he took his middle name of "Carne," (most likely Arne) and used it as his last name because there were so many Ellingboes (really?). It was hinted, also, that maybe he changed his name so as not to be traced by someone--maybe a girl? There always seemed to be an air of mystery about it. He and Marie visited once when I was about 10 or so. I remember that Marie played our pump organ and Oscar sang. Ma said later, after that visit, that Marie had said that "the Carne's 'hail' from Kentucky." I don't know what Ma answered to that. She was no pushover. I think some of us thought his story was just to impress Marie with a more important background than he really had. I saw him again, briefly, at Uncle Albert's funeral. Once I asked Aunt Clara (Pa's youngest sister) about it when we visited her in Waseca. Oscar & Marie's picture was displayed on a table, which prompted the question. He was quite a distinguished-looking man, and Marie was very sweet-looking. Oscar resembled Albert a lot--a high forehead with hair that seemed to flow back in a high, bushy sort of way. Aunt Clara said that he left home at about 17 years old--(the 1900 census) and I think she said he went to Canada. Oscar claimed that he was born in Kentucky to wealthy parents who traveled a lot. On one of their trips they went to Norway, bringing him along as a baby. While there, they went out on a fishing expedition of sorts or a boat ride of some kind. Not wanting to take the baby along, they left him in the care of a Norwegian lady, Berit--Grandma supposely (??). Their boat was lost at sea, and Grandma brought him up as her own. Part of the story told of his being part of the Canadian Royal Mounted police, and of heroic acts during a small-pox epidemic. I also remember that they said he had had a family Bible, and maybe something else, too, with the proof--I forget what--in his locker at the prison, but it was lost in a fire there. Also, I recall that he hadn't wanted the story told to his mother as it would upset her. Two of the Lee "girls" told of how Oscar could quote pages and pages of epic poetry and verse, etc.”

Another niece in April of 2003 said:

I am delighted to tell you what I know. You can draw your own conclusions! It is a bit of a mystery. Incidentally, neither my Mother nor I knew Uncle Arthur had lived for awhile in Ohio, or, at least, Mother never mentioned it. Also, Mother never referred to him as "Oscar". I'd never heard that name until my cousin, Dorothy Olson, whom we have only recently come to know rather well, said that was his given name.

I think my Mother, as the 'baby" of the family, was always very special to Uncle Arthur. He and Aunt Marie visited us, if not frequently, at least every once in awhile and I have clear memories of them both; very dear memories. Aunt Marie was a very sweet person with absolutely beautiful handwriting. Uncle Arthur could recite numerous poems, epic and otherwise, from memory. I have a notebook in which he wrote down these poems for me. Family, in general, was very special to Uncle Arthur and everyone and everything related to family was always "the best".

Uncle Arthur left home, the family farm, at a young age and had a variety of adventures, including service in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (and had tales to tell of those years); in the army in the Philippines (I have some photographs of him taken there); lastly as a guard at the Federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, where we visited them.

He was completely convinced that the family name should be Carney, not Ellingboe, and had his name legally changed, though he never told his mother and consequently, as I understand it, his mother never met his wife. It must have been very awkward. That must have been puzzling for his mother, and a source of pain, too, I would think, as well as requiring endless evasions.

Uncle Arthur said he had documentation which proved that an Irish family named Carney, who lived in Kentucky, were in the habit of going to the Norwegian fjords to fish. On one such expedition, they took their son, their son's wife and infant son, along. They left the baby with a maiden lady while they went out fishing. The entire family was drowned and she - the Norwegian maiden lady - raised the boy as her own. Later, she came to the U.S., still claiming the little boy as her son. This little boy was my grandfather. (Only recently, I learned that my grandfather was an illegitimate child, which would lend credence to Uncle Arthur's story.) Thus, the Carney name disappeared and the name Ellingboe appeared.

Uncle Arthur always admired the Irish, and, of course, Scandinavians were looked down upon at this point in our history, as were many immigrants. However, Uncle Arthur was very proud of his family and it is almost impossible for me to reconcile this pride in family, with a repudiation of his family name unless he was certain of the truth of the story. I know Uncle Arthur believed the story though I'm almost as certain no one else did, or does. His documentation, including a family Bible, was burned in a fire in the locker room of the prison so there is no proof of his claim to Irish ancestry.

It is true that my Mother looked Irish; white skin, black hair, bright blue eyes! Who knows? I don't think Mother believed this story, but she didn't actually say she disbelieved it, either. We cannot square such a "fairy tale" though, with what we know of Uncle Arthur's character, so.......As I said, draw your own conclusions!

ELLINGBOE (ARTHUR CARNEY), Oskar (I267)

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Oslo or Narvik

KARLSEN, Olga Elise Joakime (I30634)