Zoe Lena OLSEN

Notes:

In the 1930 census, she and her husband and daughter live in St. Paul in a house they own worth $5500. Gordon is a traveling salesman.

In the 1940 census, she and her husband and daughter live in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in a rented house. Gordon is a wholesale feed salesman. Five years earlier the family lived in St. Paul. Gordon has has one year of college, Zoe is a high school graduate.

She and Gordon lived at 3043 Thirteenth Avenue S. in Minneapolis at the time they announced the engagement of their daughter to Bernard George Black in May of 1946.

She lived at 6870 7th St. NE, in Fridley, Minnesota, at the time of her death. Her daughter was Mrs. Bernard G. Black of Fridley, who had 5 children. Her sister was Mrs. H. P. Miller of Minneapolis. Her obit said that she had been a resident of Minneapolis for 50 years and was a graduate of South High.

An article in the Minneapolis Tribune, 31 Jul 1966, notes: “A modest collection of daylilies has been started in the {University of Minnesota} arboretum as a memorial to Zoe L. Fossum.

Birth:
Many sources say 1895.

Zoe married Gordon Marion FOSSUM on 17 Mar 1920 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Gordon was born in 1896 in Minnesota; died on 8 Feb 1950 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a freshman (9th grade) at Washington High School in Sioux Falls for the 1939-1940 school year.

She was an officer in a Job’s Daughters chapter while in high school in Sioux Falls.

She was a student at the University of Minnesota, probably a junior, at the time her engagement was announced in May of 1946.

She and her husband lived in Fridley at the time of her mother’s death.

Mary married Bernard George BLACK on 13 Jul 1946 in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Bernard was born on 21 Dec 1916 in Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; died on 29 Apr 2003 in Oldsmar, Pinellas County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]