Randi (Reymert) Olsen, 85, of Platteville, Wisconsin, passed away peacefully on April 28, 2018 at the home of her children in Guttenberg, Iowa. A reception and time of sharing will be from noon until 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 5, 2018 at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville. Private burial will be at Harrison Cemetery, rural Platteville. Memorials may be made to the Randi Olsen Memorial Fund. Online condolences may be made at www.melbyfh.com.

Randi was born in Illinois on May 27, 1932 to Martin and Dorothy Reymert. She was the oldest of three children, her sister Kari Reymert (Morlock), and her brother Martin Reymert. She and her family grew up on the grounds of Mooseheart, an orphanage in Aurora, Illinois where her father, Dr. Martin Luther Reymert came from Norway to teach psychology at Wittenberg, then established the Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research, where she and her siblings grew up.

Randi met her husband, Dave Olsen, at a summer youth camp where they were both camp counselors. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. After two tours of combat in Korea for Dave, they married and raised their two children, Mike (deceased) and Cindy (Steve Solomon) in Batavia, Illinois where Randi was a substitute school teacher, a volunteer at the area mental health facility, and very involved in the Congregational Church where she and Dave married in 1952.

The family moved to Platteville, Wisconsin in 1968. Over these 50 years, Randi has touched many lives through her work with dog obedience classes, pet therapy at the area care centers in southwest Wisconsin, training therapy dogs, raising Great Pyranese puppies, and going to dog shows with her lab, Carrie. Randi was named Wisconsin Volunteer of the Year for her years of service providing pet therapy.

Randi is survived by daughter, Cindy (Steve Solomon); step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews; her other daughters, Candy, Mary, Patty, Annie, and Carli; countless friends and neighbors; and hundreds of four legged fur babies she's known in her 85 years of life. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, son, and two siblings.

Randi Olsen

May 27, 1932 - April 28, 2018

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