OLIVE MAY FILLION

Olive May (Kiefat) Fillion died Friday, December 2 ^nd , 2022, at home. Olive was born Jan 23, 1933, on the Kiefat farm in Nielson County, ND the daughter of Albert and Nellie (Jester) Kiefat. She grew up and attended school in the area until the family moved to Grand Forks in 1943. Where she attended school in Grand Forks, ND. She met Jerome Arthur Fillion and married him on June 10, 1955, in East Grand Forks, MN. Olive worked several jobs throughout the years with her final job as a custodian at Red River High School Grand Forks, ND. While working as a custodian she went back and got her GED and then a boiler license. After the death of her husband, Olive would spend winters in Colorado with her son Lesley. Throughout the years Olive loved to dance and visit with family. In 2016, Olive moved to Colorado to live with her eldest son Lesley permanently. She enjoyed visiting with her children who lived close. Olive enjoyed going out to eat at restaurants with her children.

She is survived by her sons; Lesley (Ft. Lupton CO), Joel (Clarksdale MO), Pierre (Patty) (Mandan ND) and Arthur (Kathy deceased) (Ft. Lupton CO); daughters Lana (Michael) Miller (Quinn SD) and Joan (Kent) Strauch (Peyton, CO); six grandchildren, five step grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren.

Olive was preceded in death by a son Kim, her husband Jerome, her parents, siblings George, Dorothy Storbakken, Clarence, Harold, Roy, Florence Ethel Hamilton, Samuel, Gladys Lundeen, Frank, Geraldine and Nellie Guttu.

Service: May 5 ^th at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in East Grand Forks at 11:00 am.

Burial: Calvary Cemetery Grand Forks ND