Virginia May (Brown) Olson

Virginia May (Brown) Olson was born on Sept. 6, 1926, in Spokane to Margaret (Beard) and Clarence D. Brown. She died in Spokane on March 30 at the age of 90.

Virginia’s father worked for the railroad so the family lived in many places in the Pacific Northwest. Her mother died when she was only six years old.

She loved spending summers in New York with her Grandmother Keene.

The family moved to railroad housing in Marengo around 1935. Virginia graduated from Ritzville High School a year early in 1943 and married Dick Brown in 1944.

She later returned to Ritzville and married Roger Olson on Jan....