Former Resident of Sevier County Dies at Manti

Funeral Held Sunday for Mrs. Sadie Olsen 

Mrs. Sadie Olsen, 55, wife of Osmond Olsen, died in Manti Wednesday, after an illness of several months.

Mrs. Olsen was born at Prattville, Sevier county, Nov 8, 1876, a daughter of Joseph S. and Sarah Brown Staker. At the age of nine years she went with her parents to Annabella, where she lived for a number of years. Part of her early life was spent in Pleasant Grove with her grandparents, John and Elizabeth Brown, where she graduated from the public schools. She was a student of the Sevier Stake academy at Richfield, also the Brigham Young academy at Provo.

In 1898, she was U. S. postmistress at the Lee Ferry colony, Arizona, and here she was instrumental in organizing a school district, becoming a school teacher at the colony.

In 1904 she was called from the Sevier stake as a worker in the Manti temple, which position she filled for seven years. She married Osmand Olsen Aug 29, 1911, in the Manti temple, and to this union was born one child.

Mrs. Olsen was a devoted church worker and has filled many important positions including president of the Y. L. M. L. A., teacher in Sunday school and Primary and secretary of the genealogical association. Surviving besides her husband is one son, Staker Olsen; one adopted daughter, Delma; her mother, Mrs. Sarah B. Staker of Annabella; seven sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Payne of Provo, Mrs. Virginia Cloward, Mrs. Vivian Christiansen, both of Richfield, Mrs. Nellie Peterson of Vernal, Mrs. Lydia Peacock of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louine Lundgreen of Monroe and Mrs. Genevieve Olsen of Austin, Nevada; one brother J. B. Staker of Annabella.

Funeral services were held Sunday at Manti. Among the speakers were Mrs. Alice Hoyt Morrel of Duchesne county, a former Sevier county teacher, who spoke at the services at the request of the deceased; President R. D. Young of the Sevier stake, President James R. Ware of the south Sevier stake and Mrs. Sadie Tooth Olsen, who was Mrs. Olsen's nurse during her long illness.

The mother of Mrs. Olsen, her brother and all of her sisters, with the exception of Mrs. Peacock, attended the services. Many other relatives and friends from Sevier and Sanpete counties were in attendance.

Richfield Reaper

1931-12-10