Late in 1963, Olsen's body was shipped from Kansas, where it had been initially interred, to be buried alongside Chic Johnson at Palm Downtown Mortuary and Cemetery in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Father-in-law of William Lear, who invented the 8-track tape and the
Lear Jet.
Vaudevillian, graduate of Northwestern University.
He had 4 children with his first wife, Lillian: son, J.C. Olsen; and daughters, Joy Pendergraft, Moya Lear, and Martha Jane, who died in infancy.
In 1950 Ole was involved in a serious traffic accident that left him
partially paralyzed.
With Chic Johnson, Ole was half of that lunatic comedy team from vaudeville, Olsen & Johnson. The pair made several films, among which the most successful (and most representatively loony) was Hellzapoppin' (1941).