obituary from Chapel Oaks Funeral Home:
ONAGA – Olga Leona Fairbanks, 93, of Onaga went to her eternal home on November 2, 2016 at the Westy Community Care Home in Westmoreland. She was a life long resident of the Onaga area.

Olga was born May 11, 1923 in Wheaton, KS the daughter of Wilhelm and Helena Abitz.

She was the youngest of eleven children, born on the eleventh day at eleven o’clock. She attended schools in Duluth and Wheaton and graduated from Wheaton Rural High School in 1941. In her teen years she worked at an Onaga bakery, and then at Safeway in Manhattan.

Olga spent much of her younger years in the homes of her siblings helping raise her nieces and nephews, whom she was very close to all of her life.

She married Lynn Fairbanks on April 21, 1957 at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Wheaton.

After marriage Olga was a farmwife and homemaker. They spent all their married life on the family farm. Olga was known for her angel food cakes which were present at every family reunion. She was also known as “Kitty” or “Grandma Kitty” to those who knew her best, nicknamed by the Gunsmoke fans in the family.

Olga was a member of the St. Luke Lutheran Church and the Ladies Aid at the church.

She was preceded in death by parents, husband, and each of her siblings and their spouses, with the exception of her sister-in-law Florence Abitz (Chet) who resided as her roommate at the care home...

Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, November 5th at St. Luke Lutheran Church. Burial will follow in the Onaga Cemetery. Olga will lie in state at the Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Onaga until 3:00 p.m. on Friday. She will lie in state after 5:00 p.m. at the church. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the church with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. Memorials are suggested to St. Luke Lutheran Church, and may be sent in care of Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, P.O. Box 312, Onaga, 66521.