- Date Of Birth: June 19, 1919
- Date Of Death: February 9, 2019
- State: Idaho
R. Alice Olsen passed peacefully from this plane to the next, midday, February 9, 2019, at her daughter’s home in Ammon, Idaho. Nearly completed with rehab for a broken pelvis, she suffered a stroke and succumbed six days later, supported by thorough and caring attention of Hospice of Eastern Idaho.
Born June 19, 1919, in Rooks County, Kansas, the third child of Roy E. and Susie M. Casteel, Alice was approaching her 100th birthday this summer.
She met and married Robert M. Olsen, of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1942, just before his Army unit shipped to the Pacific theater of World War II. After his return, and rehabilitation from wounds he received, Bob received his BS degree at Kansas University and the couple’s son, Robert M. Olsen, Jr., was born in 1947. They moved San Francisco, California, where Bob was hired by the Schlage Lock Company and sent to Vancouver, Canada, to establish and operate their Canadian factory. The couple’s daughter, Sharon Kay Olsen, was born there in 1951. Alice enjoyed life in Canada as the factory prospered and she built a warm and nurturing home.
