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Darlene Mae Olsen Johnsrude

July 17, 2020

July 17, 2020
1931-2020 ~ Darlene Johnsrude (née Olsen), of Bremerton, Washington (USA), died peacefully in the early morning hours of July 17, 2020, at St. Michael Hospital after a short illness at the age of 89.
She was born in 1931 in the hamlet of Antelope, Saskatchewan to John Olsen, who was a grain elevator operator, and Mary Olsen (née Weymouth). She trained as a registered nurse in the residential nursing diploma program at Provincial Mental Hospital (Ponoka Centenniel Centre for Mental Health & Brain Injury), graduating in 1953.
She is survived by her sister Camilla Schmidek (née Olsen); Ted, her husband of 62 years; their three sons, Kevin, Tim, and David; two daughters-in- law, Laura and Dee, and their three grandchildren, Emma, Nick, and Lauren. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews, and cousins in the United States, Canada, England, and Denmark. She was preceded in death by her parents, of Ponoka, and by her brother Jerry Olsen, of Edmonton.
Darlene had many immediate and extended family members in the Ponoka area and visited frequently with her husband and children over the decades after she moved away to pursue her nursing career in the 1950s.
If desired, donations in lieu of flowers will be gratefully accepted by The Kitsap Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship (https://www.kuuf.org/giving) or the Kitsap Humane Society (https://www.kitsap-humane.org/support-us).