Ingrid Wedding Olsen Obituary (1905 - 2008)

Ingrid W. Olsen, 103, passed away September 25, 2008. She was born March 3, 1905 in Vardo, Finnmark Norway, the fifth of nine children born to Radman Heiberg Johansen Wedding and Synnove Aasheim Wedding. Ingrid immigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1917 in the company of a senior LDS missionary returning home from Norway. Her younger sister, Ragnhild, was also brought at the same time by another senior missionary to Idaho. Their mother, Synnove, with a younger brother (Erling) came to Salt Lake later and the Wedding family was established in America. Ingrid married Ingvald (Ingo) Hyrum Olsen (also a Norwegian immigrant) August 2, 1924; later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She was preceded in death by her parents, all of her siblings, her daughter (Lorraine), her husband, and a granddaughter (Shannon Egan Millsap) Ingrid spent all her working life in the Salt Lake ZCMI downtown store, beginning as a Tiffin Room worker, and 41 years as a beautician. She is survived by her son, R. Lloyd Olsen; six grandchildren (Lloyd’s children: Kristine Olsen, Rick Olsen and Rob Olsen; Lorraine’s children: Kip Egan, Drew Egan and Allison Holmes; many great and great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, October 1st at 11:00 a.m. at the Little Cottonwood 14th Ward, 1160 East Vine Street, where friends can visit from 10:00-10:45 a.m. before services. A Visitation will also be held at Jenkins-Soffe Mortuary, 4760 So. State Street in Murray, Utah from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 30th. Interment will be at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Rest Haven Park Section, 3401 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City.