Edith Amelia Olson ¹

   Cause of her death was Drowned.

   Find a Grave ID: 100456293.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Obituary. Warren- Three children of Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Gollmer drowned Sunday afternoon in an artificial pond while their parents stoodby unable to swim and helpless to prevent the tragedy on their farm five miles southwest of here.

Dead are Allan, 17, Charles, 13, and Claude, 10. The three boys had paddled a homemade raft into deep water on a three acre pond created by the damming of a creek in the government conservation program.

The youngest child slipped into the water and the other boys plunged in after him in a rescue attempt. None of the boys knew how to swim.

Mr. and Mrs. Gollmer, who could not swim either, witnessed the incident from the bank. Gollmer said he flung himself into the water in an effort to save his sons, but had to turn back before he drowned.

John Bausman, a neighbor, arrived at the scene in answer to screams by the mother. He was unable to find the children in the murkey water.

Jo Daviess County deputy sheriffs dynamited the dam which retained the pond. They recovered the bodies after three hours. Allan, who was scheduled to graduate from Warren High School in two weeks, was born Oct. 19, 1938, in Warren, Charles, a seventh grade pupil at Warren School was born Jan 11, 1943. Claude, a fifth grade pupil, was born June 3, 1945.

Freeport Journal Standard 14 May 1956

Granddaughter of Edith, Daughter of J. Laverne Gollmer

For the second successive year tragedy has struck the LaVerne Gollmer family at Warren, Ill. The couple's 17 year old daughter, Cleo Louise, died Sunday in Deaconess hospital, Freeport, of Leukemia. On Mother's Day, May 13, 1956, three of their sons were drowned in a small pond on the family farm, five miles west of Warren.

Services for the daughter were held at 3 pm today in the Bartell funeral home at Warren, with Rev. John Cox, pastor of the Methodist Church officiating. Burial was in Elmwood Cemetery.

Cleo Louise was born Nov. 16, 1940, in Warren Township. She was a senior at Warren High School and had been hospitalized since last Tuesday.

Surviving are her parents; a brother, Thurl; a sister, Trixie, all at home; the grandparents, Fletcher Gollmer and Mrs. Charles Garner, both of Warren. She was preceded in death by Allan, 17, Charles, 13, and Claude, 10.

Monroe Evening Times 17 Dec 1957

Edith married Fletcher Eustis Gollmer, son of Johann Jacob Gollmer Sr and Margaret Rech, on 21 Feb 1912. (Fletcher Eustis Gollmer was born on 21 May 1888 in Platteville, WI, died on 25 May 1967 in Darlington, WI and was buried in Darlington, WI, Union Grove Cemetery.)

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