Richard Midthun Olson
- Born: 6 Mar 1908, Ray, Williams Co, North Dakota, United States
- Died: 27 Mar 1974, Bozeman, Gallatin Co, Montana, United States at age 66
- Buried: Sunset Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Gallatin Co, Montana, United States
Research Notes:
some research notes that supports his data:
Richard
1940 US census, Cohagen, Garfield Co, MT; ED 17-20; sheet 4A, line5
Richard M Olson, a lodger, age 31 b in ND; Apr 1935, rural Williams
Co, ND; Principal, High School [lived in a school dormitory ... maybe more like a teacherage ..]
... this must have been a small school ... maybe something like
Hughenden, AB
Cohagen ... about 300 kms east and a bit north from Billings
.. today it appears to have a population of about 125 people ..
near the Missouri River ... in 1950 population of Garfield Co, MT was 2172; in 1940 2641 in the county
1950 US Census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5649173:62308
WW 2 draft, signed 16 Oct 1940
- living at Cohagen, Garfield ... worked for School District
.. card has a red ink handwritten discharge: from Army, 15 Nov 1945
.. Headstone application, - enlisted 24 Jan 1943 and discharged
15 Nov. Staff Sgt, Army Air Force ... application by Alice I Hill
findagrave, id 76102083
Sunset Hills Cemetery
Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
MT death Certicate
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1114807:5437
.. Teacher - superintendent
.. same address as his sister, 316 S. 6th, Bozeman ..
informant .. Alice I Hill
.. died at Deaconess H; Never Married
... in 1955 he was living at Wolf Point, MT, closed to 300 kms east and north of Cohagen -- from brother Malcolm's obit
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