Thomas Harold Olson, Sr.

Thomas Harold Olson, Sr. of Lisco, Nebr. died peacefully on July 26, 2021. Born on August 31, 1935, Tom was the youngest of four children to Harold and Helen Olson. He grew up in the village of Lisco where he received his formal elementary education and the less formal education that a young boy finds when growing up in a rural town. His connection to the Sandhills would eventually lead Tom and his wife, Cynthia, back to Lisco where they would raise their three children, Kerstin, Lynne, and Tom Jr.

Tom graduated from Garden County High School with the class of 1953 and from the University o...