DARLENE MAE JOHNSRUDE (OLSEN)

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DARLENE MAE JOHNSRUDE
(née OLSEN)
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 in Bremerton after a short illness. She was 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 served as a ward supervisor and community liaison for psychiatric patients discharged from Victoria General Hospital from 1972 to 1976 while her husband completed his residency in urology at St. Boniface Hospital and Winnipeg General Hospital.
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 US, Canada, England, and Denmark. She was preceded in death by her parents and by her brother Jerry Olsen.
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).

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Nov 07, 2020