Background
Sally Olsen was born in Bergen, Norway. Her father died when she was five years old.
Sally Olsen was born in Bergen, Norway. Her father died when she was five years old.
She was the eldest of four girls. In 1929, at age seventeen, Olsen and her family moved to the United States, where they first settled in Brooklyn, New New York Olsen attended the Bible school of Philadelphia Church in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago where she trained for the ministry and was ordained a minister.
Olsen was a pioneer in social work for criminals in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 1952, she founded Sarons Rose, a day center mission for children with one or both parents in prison. She also served unofficially in the role of an unofficial prison chaplain in San Juan where she was nicknamed the Angel of Prisoners (El Angel de los Presos).
Her life was chronicled by Max Manus in 1975 and by East. Mentzen in 1987. Mentzen, Av Egil (1987) Men Gud Georgia Vekst: Jubileumsboken om Sarons Rose Sally Olsen - fangenes engel pa Puerto Rico (Baksidebilde)
Manus, Max (1975) Sally Olsen: Fangenes engel i Puerto Rico (Oslo: Luther Forlag).
