Margaret Florence Oslund

Margaret Florence Oslund passed away quietly on May 10, 2017, at the age of 95. She was born at home on April 26, 1922, on her parents' farm near Ault, Colo. She was the youngest of three children. The family was far from being wealthy in a material sense but very rich in terms of family and friends.

Margaret never complained of having been poor, although she mentioned occasionally that receiving a nickel to buy an ice cream cone was a very big event. On the other hand, she spoke happily and often about the good times she had with her family and friends.

After high school, she attended Colorado State Teachers College for two years, and did some student teaching in a one room school in the area. She also played the piano for her church services. It was there that she met her husband Owen, who had been invited to come speak. After courting her for about a year, he joined the Army, and a year or so later, with her family's blessing, she bravely boarded a train bound for Fresno (where Owen was in pilot's training), for a marriage that lasted until his death, nearly 59 years later.

Following the war, the Oslund family, soon to grow to three children, lived for several years on the Wyoming Hereford Ranch near Cheyenne. She counted those 10 years as the best in her life. Then they moved into Cheyenne itself, where she worked as a secretary in the local schools, and later in Wyoming's Air National Guard.

When Owen retired in 1984, he and Margaret moved to Fallbrook, Calif. to be closer to their grandchildren. They became active and well loved members of Zion Lutheran Church, and enjoyed many friendships there.

At the time of her death, she was the last living member of her generation, having lived several years longer than any of her siblings or in-laws had. She was preceded in death by her husband Owen, and is survived by her children, Lane Oslund (Darlene) of Fallbrook, Paul Oslund (Janet) of Montrose, Colo. and Jean Duran of Ontario, Calif. Eight grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren survive as well. She will be buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Fallbrook, but her real home is now in Heaven, where she rejoins her beloved husband.