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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Edna May Ohlsen ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Ohlsen, Edna May
LAST NAME: Ohlsen FIRST NAME: Edna MIDDLE NAME: May NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: McClintick AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 13 Apr 1923 DIED: 14 Nov 2001 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Pekin, Tazewell Co, Illinois
DEATH PLACE: Sublimity, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of Father: Charles McClintick

Maiden name of Mother: Ruth Tilford

1930 IL CENSUS – Edna Mae McClintick (6y, b Illinois) enumerated with parents Edward (36y, b Illinois, married at age 23y, occupation meat cutter) and Ruth (33y, b Kansas, married at age 19y) and 2 siblings, Ruth (10y, b Illinois) and Robert (9y, b Illinois)

1940 IL CENSUS – Edna M. McClintick (17y, b Illinois) enumerated with parents Edward (48y, b Illinois, occupation meat cutter) and Ruth (43y, b Kansas) and 2 siblings, Ruth (20y, b Illinois) and Robert (19y, b Illinois); family was living in same place in 1935

MARRIAGE – Walter C. Ohlsen (of Seattle, Wash) & Edna May McClintick (of Pekin, Ill) md 23 May 1942, Seattle, King co, Washington  

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (2001 Marion co) #01-27542

OBITUARY: 

Edna M. Ohlsen, April 13, 1923-Nov 14, 2001

Salem – Edna M. Ohlsen, a resident of Salem, died in Sublimity. She was born on April 13, 1923 in Pekin, Illinois, the daughter of Charles and Ruth Tilford McClintick. Edna married Walter Ohlsen on May 23, 1942 in Seattle, Washington. They lived for a time in Peoria, Illinois; later living in Compton, Cypress and Fullerton, California. While in Fullerton, she was a past president of TPOS and had been a very active member. She was a past member of the Calvary Church in Placentia. They settled in Salem in 1976. Edna was a preschool teacher for more than seven years at the Oak Park Daycare and Preschool in Salem; she had attended Oak Park Church in Salem. Edna and Walter were soulmates. They were good communicators and set a good example for their family to follow. Edna enjoyed sewing and knitting. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter, on May 9, 1994. She is survived by her sons, Pat of Salem and Mike of Olympia, Washington; sister, Ruth Johnston of Boulder, Colorado; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Visiting will be noon to 5 pm today and 9 am to 2 pm Saturday at Bollman Funeral Home in Dallas. Services will be 2 pm Sunday, Nov 28 at Spring Valley Church. Interment will follow in Zena Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Willamette Valley Hospice in care of Bollman Funeral Home in Dallas, Oregon.

Statesman Journal, Friday, November 16, 2001

INSCRIPTION: 

Ohlsen
Edna May
1923 - 2001
Married May 23, 1942
Together Forever
[shares marker with Walter]

SOURCES: 

Saucy Survey & Photographs
SSDI

ODI

1930 IL CENSUS (Tazewell co, Pekin, ED 29, sheet 1B)

1940 IL CENSUS (Tazewell co, Pekin, ED 90-45, sheet 9B-10A)

Washington Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

SJ, 16 Nov 2001  

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