Olga H. Benson

Mrs. Olga Hoessly Benson, 91, died on Friday, February 11, 2011 in the Job Haines Home for Assisted Living, Bloomfield.
Services will be private.
Olga was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland on June 25, 1919, an only child of Olga & Herman Hoessly. Her family emigrated to Chicago when she was 7 years old and to NJ a few years after that. Olga graduated from East Orange High School in 1937 and attended NYU majoring in retailing.
In 1944 Olga married Raymond Benson. The Bensons had two children, Brant and Bettina.
Mrs. Benson was a successful business women, owning Olga Benson Fashions on Washington Street in East Orange. She retired to Troy Towers in Bloomfield in 1991 and then to the Job Haines Home in 2009.