Olina B. Onstad

Olina Onstad, 100, Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, MN, died on Friday, April 7, 2006 in the nursing home.Olina B. Trontvet was born on September 24, 1905, in Thief River Falls, MN, to Paul and Sarah Eiel Trontvet. She graduated from the Lake Mills, Iowa High school. Olina married Pastor Carl Opsahl in 1926, in Lake Mills, Iowa. They lived in Lewistown, MT, for four years and Jewell, Iowa, for ten years. While Carl served in the Military Chaplaincy, she lived and raised her kids in Portland, ME, and Forest City, IA. They moved to Halstad, MN, in 1946 and then to Moorhead, MN, in 1956. Olina graduated Magna Cum Laude from Concordia College in Moorhead in 1966. Carl died in 1970. She married Pastor Peter Onstad in 1974 and he died in 1997. Olina was very active in Trinity Lutheran Church for all of the years that she lived in Moorhead.She is survived by a son, Pastor Paul Pastor Geri Opsahl, Sterling, VA; a daughter, Mary John Hellerud, Moorhead, MN; seven grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren; one stepson, Peter Marty Onstad, Burnsville, MN; step-daughter, Jeanne Wayne Hole, Fargo, ND; three step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husbands, Pastor Carl Opsahl in 1970, and Pastor Peter Onstad, in 1997.