Evelyn Ruth Olsen

Evelyn Ruth Olsen, 88, of Palmyra, VA, departed this life on Wednesday, March 3, 2016. She was born on November 19, 1927, in Chicago, IL, to the late Louis D. Frydenberg and Ruth (Juulsen) Frydenberg. Her first four years of life Evelyn lived in Chicago, IL before her family moved to Brooklyn, NY where she went to grade school and graduated from high school in 1945. After the war she and her mother made several trips, by ship, to Norway to visit family and it was here that she met her future husband. Evelyn was united in marriage on June 7, 1952 to Knut Olsen of Horton, Norway and they enjoyed 63 years of marriage. During her life she worked as a bookkeeper for several businesses and was an assistant tax collector for the city of Denville, NJ for almost 10 years. In the early 1980’s she and Knut moved to Lake Monticello, VA. Evelyn loved to quilt, read and paint and shared many of her quilts and quilted items with family and friends over the years. Throughout her life she loved to fish, both in freshwater and salt. She enjoyed her times at Tuftun pond at Lake Monticello and at Anna Marie Island of the Atlantic coast of Florida. She is survived by her husband, Knut of the home, a son and 2 daughters, Kenneth Olsen and his wife Cherie of Manhattan, KS, Ann-Louise Fisher and husband James of Palmyra, VA and Lise Beth Christiansen of Orange, VA, her 7 grandchildren: Livie (36) , Kristian (34), Devin (32), Aubrie (32), Kjersten (28), Claire (29) and Kenee (25) and 9 great-grandchildren.