2LT Olive E. Brugge
1922- 2014
USAR
WWII
Olive Elfreda Saethre was born in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota on October 5, 1922, to Alfred and Mabel Berglund Saethre.
Saethre attended Duluth State Teachers College in 1942 -1944, before she entered quasi-military service in the Women’s Army Corps. Although her service specifics are undocumented in public sources, her family clearly retained them, as she has a Veterans bronze marker, shown above.
After the war, she completed her degree, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1948.
On June 14, 1949, she married Philip B. Brugge in Cook County, Minnesota; they raised 5 children.
She worked many years as a substitute teacher in the northwest suburbs while raising her family.
2LT Olive Saethre Brugge died June 12, 2014 in Barrington, and is buried with her husband in Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.