LUANNA MAE OLSON

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.- Services will be held at 11 am. Saturday at Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar, Mo., for Luanna Mae (Divine) Olson, 80, Champaign (formerly of Clinton, Mo.), who died Monday, June 21, 2021, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Burial will be in Peace Valley Cemetery in Anderson, Mo.

Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 10 a.m., at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to Little Galilee Christian Assembly in Clinton and the Heartspring School in Wichita, Kan.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include two brothers, Keith Divine and wife Lynn, Lamar, Mo. and John Divine and wife Kerry, Joplin, Mo.; two sisters, Bonda Rawlings and husband Bill, Lamar, Mo. and Theresa Jo Faubion and husband Doug, Forsyth, Mo.; three daughters, Julie Panicali and husband Rob, Carol Steam, Amy Olson and Angela Bennet, Bartlett and Sarah Olson, Peoria; one son, Dan Olson and wife Stacy, Champaign and four grandchildren, Laura and Elizabeth Panicali and Nathan and Savanna Olson.

Mrs. Olson was born June 22, 1940, in Lamar, Mo., to Edith (Young) and Buel Divine. She married Jim Olson on Nov. 29, 1963. He preceded her in death.

Mrs. Olson spent her lifetime teaching and caring for youth. She retired from teaching elementary school in 2000 after many years of service. She also loved teaching Sunday school, which she did for most of her life. Over the years she was a 4-H leader, a coach and volunteered often in the community.

Later in life she loved to scrapbook and remained an active member and secretary of the Champaign County Home and Community Education (CCHCE). She was also a member of the CU church.