In Memory Of
Martha Ila Olmstead
Martha Ila Olmstead
Memorial services for Martha Ila Olmstead, 82, of Junction City will be Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 10:30 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church with Pastor Matthew Glasgow officiating. A private burial will precede the memorial service in Highland Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday, February 6, 2006, 6-8 p.m. at Penwell-Gabel Johnson Chapel, 203 N. Washington. Mrs. Olmstead passed away, February 2, 2006 at Geary Community Hospital. Memorial contributions may be given to the First Presbyterian Church, 113 W. 5th, Junction City, KS 66441.
Mrs. Olmstead was born September 22, 1923 at Colby, KS to Claude C. & Genie (Reel) Dell . At an early age the family moved to the Beatrice, NE area where she attended the Rockford Elementary school and graduated from the Holmesville, NE High School. She attended Peru State College in Peru, NE. She taught rural Nebraska schools for a few years and in Garden City, KS where she met her future husband.
On June 20, 1948 she and Harold L. Olmstead were married at the South Beatrice Church of The Bretheren near Holmesville, NE. They made their first home in Garden City, KS where she was employed by the Finney County Social Welfare Department as a Social Welfare Worker.
In 1952 she and her husband, along with infant daughter, moved to Junction City, KS where she has lived the rest of her life. Upon moving to Junction City she first sold the Avon priducts and then along with Barbara Wright became the first School Visitors for USD 475. In 1979 she obtained her Real Estate license and later her Broker license and formed the Olmstead-Davis Real Estate Co. with Pam Davis. Upon the sale of her Real Estate Company to John E. Summers she continued selling Real Estate with his firm until she retired in 2001. She was a member of The Pilot Club, the AR Chapter of P.E.O. and The First Presbyterian Church where she had served two terms on the Board of Deacons and was a member of the original Endowment Committee of the church.
Surviving are her husband of the home, daughter, Beth Olmstead and Tom Kuhn of New York City, son, Richard and his wife Jill of Corrales, New Mexico and granddaughter Miranda and her husband Sam Bieker also of New York City, four brothers, Byron Dell of Dayton, OH, Joe Dell of The Dalles, OR, Ray Dell of Beatrice, NE and Emerson Dell of Carlsbad, CA, one sister Mildred Jones of Reston, VA.
Musicians will be Joe and Sheila Markley and Ramona Printz-Smith
Mrs. Olmstead was born September 22, 1923 at Colby, KS to Claude C. & Genie (Reel) Dell . At an early age the family moved to the Beatrice, NE area where she attended the Rockford Elementary school and graduated from the Holmesville, NE High School. She attended Peru State College in Peru, NE. She taught rural Nebraska schools for a few years and in Garden City, KS where she met her future husband.
On June 20, 1948 she and Harold L. Olmstead were married at the South Beatrice Church of The Bretheren near Holmesville, NE. They made their first home in Garden City, KS where she was employed by the Finney County Social Welfare Department as a Social Welfare Worker.
In 1952 she and her husband, along with infant daughter, moved to Junction City, KS where she has lived the rest of her life. Upon moving to Junction City she first sold the Avon priducts and then along with Barbara Wright became the first School Visitors for USD 475. In 1979 she obtained her Real Estate license and later her Broker license and formed the Olmstead-Davis Real Estate Co. with Pam Davis. Upon the sale of her Real Estate Company to John E. Summers she continued selling Real Estate with his firm until she retired in 2001. She was a member of The Pilot Club, the AR Chapter of P.E.O. and The First Presbyterian Church where she had served two terms on the Board of Deacons and was a member of the original Endowment Committee of the church.
Surviving are her husband of the home, daughter, Beth Olmstead and Tom Kuhn of New York City, son, Richard and his wife Jill of Corrales, New Mexico and granddaughter Miranda and her husband Sam Bieker also of New York City, four brothers, Byron Dell of Dayton, OH, Joe Dell of The Dalles, OR, Ray Dell of Beatrice, NE and Emerson Dell of Carlsbad, CA, one sister Mildred Jones of Reston, VA.
Musicians will be Joe and Sheila Markley and Ramona Printz-Smith
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Service Schedule
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Visitation
Monday, February 6, 2006
6:00 - 8:00 pm (Central time)
Johnson & Mass-Hinitt
Memorial Service
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Starts at 10:30 am (Central time)
First Presbyterian Church
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