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ÁRDÍ S
Sister Laufey Olson
Sister Laufey Olson was conse-
crated Deaconess on Sunday June
8th in the First Lutheran Church,
Winnipeg, that day being the open-
ing day of the syndical convention.
She was born and brought up
in Selkirk, Manitoba, and received
her early education there. Her
parents were the late David John-
son and his wife Palina Margret
Eirikson. She was an active worker
in the Selkirk Lutheran Church
during her youth and young
womanhood.
Sister Laufey is the widow of
Rev. Carl J. Olson who served
for many years as a pastor in our
Synod. With him she worked in
Flin Flon, Manitoba, and in two parishes in Nebraska. Following
his death she worked as parish secretary in Grace Church, Lincoln,
Nebraska. Later she took two years intensive training at the
Baltimore Deaconess School of the United Lutheran Church and
graduated from there in the spring of 1957.
Sister Laufey began her duties as Deaconess in the Arborg-
Riverton Parish in June 1957, where she is under the call and
assignment of the Board of American Missions of the United
Lutheran Church of America. Her Assignment there continues
until Sept. 1958.
Sister Laufey has rendered effective service to the parish
which she has served and will, beyond doubt, do so wherever the
call of duty will lead her. She is deeply religious, sincere and
thorough in her work. May God grant her a long and blessed
future.
—I.J.O.