User:Jakeolsen21/sandbox

Kenneth Paul Olsen was a brilliant man

His grandpa liked to play chess with him but died when he was just 5 years old and he was devastated He had a great mom and dad and three sisters

His dad was a carpenter and quit work the day he turned 65 His mom was a fantastic stay at home mom who loved her children

My Dad went into college not sure what he wanted to do

He loved physics He knew he was good at math so he became an accounting major

Right out of college he was with his highschool/college sweetheart He worked for warren vanmale

Mister vanmale was a collector of sorts

A few years after warren past away

Dad bought into a stock with 250,000 dollars

The stock tripled

He sold it

Then he bought some building and became a landlord and used his expertise in accounting

He soon after had a child named Stephanie

He then decided he wanted to adventure as mucha s possible and he remember one week when he was in wheaton college he went to Norway and gthought it was amazing

He then had a daughter named Chistie

And a son named Jake

He did his best he could as a dad with his wife Donna

His business OJVM company was booming, He decided he needed a break

So he took a year long vacation with his kids to Norway

After that the whole family moved to Wheaton Illinois (where Ken my dad went to college0

He handled the financing of the family if people ever had questions they would go to him and he would usually have a good answer.

As his family grew he had to deal with trouble with his teenage kids, college and highschool. Every year him his wife and his kids took some type of awesome vacation, to Jamaica, or Norway another time or even the Amazon.

Then right before 2008 he invested in some condos that were supposed to end up helping Aurora Illinois. it didn't go so well. With him going through bancruptcy he eventually got out of bankruptcy and sold his last building in early 2016.

Once all of his kids got out of college all his kids got all of their full time jobs and him and his wife did everything they could to support them

He suddenly had a stroke and past away On December 2nd 2016

Ken Olsen will always be remembered as a great man.