Carl Vernon Olson

C.V. “Ole” Olson, Sr., a devoted husband, father and family provider of McGregor, died Wednesday, December 29, 2010, at the age of 82. Funeral services will be 10:00 A.M. Monday, January 3, 2011, at Cole Funeral Home Chapel, 1113 West Fifth Street, McGregor with Chaplian Greg Knippa officiating. Interment with military honors will follow in China Spring Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 6 P.M Sunday at Cole Funeral Home.

Mr. Olson was born May 17, 1927, in Mosheim, Texas, the son of the late Fred and Verna Beatrice (Helm) Olson where he attended school. From 1945 to his honorable discharge in 1946, he served his country in the United States Navy during World War II in the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign. He was a former member of the Bryant Oliver Post of the American Legion in McGregor. On December 20, 1947, he married Doris Laverne Amundson in the Norse Community of Bosque County. Much of his life was spent as a firefighter. For thirty-five years he was employed by the City of Dallas as a firefighter prior to his 1977 retirement. Throughout his life, he enjoyed woodworking, making canes, flying airplanes, hunting, fishing, working with CB radios, grafting pecan trees and loving all kinds of animals.

Also preceding him in death was three brothers, R.C. Olson, Fred Amos Olson and Billy Joe Olson.

Survivors include his wife, Doris Olson of McGregor; a son, Carl “Buddy” Olson, Jr. and wife Cindy of Belton; three daughters, Nancy Adam and husband Russell of Lorena, Karen Owens Watts and husband Gary of Hurst, Connie Langley and husband Ron of Cleburne; a sister Betty Jean Crelia Horton and husband Jim of McGregor; eight grandchildren, Brian Owens, Jeremy Owens, Mellissa Alexander, Christie Tork, Kyle McGonigal, Shawn Adam, Jeffrey Adam, Jennifer Sykora and nine great grandchildren.

For those desiring the family has suggested Alzheimer’s Association, 6605 Sanger, Suite 1, Waco, Texas 76710 or Providence Hospice, 4830Lakewood Drive, Suite 5, Waco, Texas 76710, The Salvation Army, 1225 S. Jack Kultgen Expwy, Waco, Texas 76706 for memorial contributions.