Judith M Olsen

JUDITH MARILYN (LAMB) OLSEN, retired Library Director of Burlington County College, died June 2, 2013, at age 69. Judy was an extraordinary genealogist who volunteered two days a week at the Burlington County Historical Society, where she was president of the board of trustees. She was also on the board of the New Jersey Genealogical Society. For Burlington County College she continued to teach a children’s literature class online and several classes for the college’s senior citizen LIFE program. She wrote Pemberton: a Village on the Rancocas and a book about Pemberton Township as well as several genealogies, especially ones on the Lippincotts. She was an elder of the 1st Presbyterian Church of Mount Holly, where she played many roles, including participating in Bless Mt. Holly, in which members of several Mt. Holly churches have been praying for individual streets of Mt. Holly. She was one who would readily volunteer when there was a need, and she had no hesitation about volunteering her husband, Doug, for the same things, which greatly enriched his life. They both were judges the past couple years of New Jersey History Day and National History Day and for the past 36 years traveled to churches in several states to participate in Lay Witness Mission Weekends. She was the valedictorian of Pemberton Township High School, class of ’61, and a graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois) and the Rutgers MLS School. Judy, “Grammy,” leaves behind her husband Doug, her daughter Polly Olsen, and her grandchildren William, Dezmen, Desiree, and Derek, her brothers Jeff (Karen) and John Lamb (Vicky), sister-in-law Sally Carlson (Richard), as well as nephews Matt, Ben, and Ken Lamb, Jeff and Greg Carlson, and nieces Molly Hazen and Jody Swanson., as well as 11 grandnieces and grandnephews. Her parents were William and Mary Lamb of Pemberton. She is also going to be missed by many friends, for Judy was one for whom there was no such thing as a casual acquaintance. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to either the 1st Presbyterian Church of Mt. Holly, 125 Garden Street, Mt. Holly, NJ 08060 or The Burlington County Historical Society, 457 High Street, Burlington, NJ 08016. Viewings will be Sunday, June 9, from 5 PM to 8 PM and 11 AM to 12 PM Monday, June 10 at the 1st Presbyterian Church of Mt. Holly. A memorial service will begin at 12:30 Monday, followed by a private interment at the Baptist Cemetery in Pemberton.

Judith M Olsen

September 2, 1943 - June 2, 2013