Funeral services for Alice L. Olson, 86, of Chamberlain will be 10:30 am Monday, September 24, 2018 at the Zion Lutheran Church in Chamberlain with burial in the Riverview Cemetery at Chamberlain.   Visitation will begin Sunday at 5:00 pm with a prayer service at 7:00 pm at the Zion Lutheran Church in Chamberlain.

Alice L. Olson, 86, of Chamberlain passed away on September 19, 2018 at Sanford Care Center in Chamberlain.

Alice Lorraine Arhart was born November 18, 1931 in Jerauld County to Alfred and Clara (Feistner) Arhart.  She was baptized as an infant and confirmed as a teenager at the Lutheran Church in Lane, SD.  She attended country school through the eighth grade and was the salutatorian of the 1949 graduating class at Lane High School in Lane, SD.  After high school, she attended the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing where she graduated in 1952.  She became a surgical nurse at the Community Bailey Hospital in Chamberlain.

On November 15, 1953, Alice was united in marriage to Carl Eugene "Gene" Olson in the Storla Lutheran Church in Storla, SD.  They made their home on a ranch south of Chamberlain.  To this union a son, Gregory Carl was born.

Alice specialized in nursing some after Greg was born working one winter at the Sunset Valley Haven Nursing Home in Chamberlain.  Alice also helped at the Chamberlain Longhorn Sale working the office for many years.  In 1969, Alice and Gene started the Old West Museum in Oacoma which they operated until 1998 when they held an auction and began selling items from the museum so they could begin retiring.

Alice was active in the Zion Lutheran Church serving as President and Secretary of the LWML and head of the Rebecca Prayer Chain.  She was on the hospital board being the first R.N. to hold a position.  She was still on the board when Mid Dakota Hospital was built.  She was also a member of the "Red Hat Floozies".

Alice was in a medical experiment run by Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School to try to help study cancer and heart trouble.

Gratefully sharing her life are her son Greg and Melanie Olson of Chamberlain; brother LeRoy and Phyllis Arhart of Woonsocket, SD; and two sisters Agnes Ekstrum of Kimball, SD and Diane and Harlan Thompson of Emerson, NE.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband Gene, infant son Eugene, brother LaVerne, brother-in-law Richard, and sister-in-law Judy.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to: Zion Lutheran Church, 314 S Main, Chamberlain, SD 57325;  or Main Street Living, Inc., 1400 South Duluth Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57105.