Ole Gustafson
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Alice Swanson Gustafson
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Eagle Valley Enterprise page p1 - February 9, 1950
LE GUSTAFSON DIED MONDAY
The past -few months have taken a heavy toll of lives of prominent Eagle County people, and one death that shocked the community Monday was the death of Ole Gustafson, personnel chief at the Empire Zinc Company in Gilman. Mr. Gustafson’s death came a few hours after h e be came ill, and he passed away in St. Luke’s Hospital in Denver Monday. Funeral services will be held in Denver Saturday at 1:30 at Olinger Mortuary, Speer boulevard and Sherman street. Burial will be in Fairmount cemetery. Oscar A. Gustafson was born in Denver Jan. 3, 1900 and attended Lin coin school and South high school. He was active in sports, winning the junior city tennis championship in Denver in 1917 and fighting in the Elk’s boxing tournaments in 1916-17. He was active in golf at the Leadvdle Golf Club and yas a player and coach of the Gilman softball team. Mr. Gustafson entered the employ of the Empire Zinc Company at Gilman in 1917 as an office boy, and soon became chief clerk. In 1929 he became personnel chief. He was a member of the Masonic Eagle Lodge No. 43 and the Eastern Star at Minturn, and was a member of the American Legion. Surviving are his wife, Alice Swanson Gustafson of Gilman; two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Florence Tophigh of Los Alamos, N. M. and Donna Lee Gustafson of Gilman; his mother, Mrs. A. Matilda Edstrom of Denver; and two brothers, Arthur A. Gustafson of Minneapolis and Elmer C. Gustafson of Denver. During the time Mr. Gustafson made Eagle county his home, he made friends in all sections of the county, and commanded a place ot high esteem by all who knew him well, or who had business dealings with him. His untimely death is a deep shock and personal loss to a large number of people.
