Andrew was the son of Kim and Joey Olsen. His father tragically died in a car accident when he was three years old.
Andrew was a graduate of Grove High School in Grove Oklahoma. He lived all around Northeastern Oklahoma, predominantly around Grove, Wyandotte, Quapaw, and Miami.
Dru was the brother of Holly, Jeremy, Hecca and JoOuita. He was the uncle of Leanna, Lendsay, Joey, Allison, Skylar, Kayera, Lily, and Audrey.
Seneca-Cayuga, Quapaw, Wyandotte, Eastern Shawnee ancestry, Dru grew up very involved within the tribes. He sang, danced and went to cultural classes and learned so much about his ancestry and languages. He was also of Irish and English ancestry.
Andrew was an excellent cook and was a Jack of all Trades, having worked in different fields. He spent time remodeling Grand Lakeside, formerly Royal Bay, in Grove Oklahoma after the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe purchased the property. He also painted boats at marinas, did landscaping and yard maintenance around different lake properties, worked construction jobs and was a lead cook and Baker at one point in time. He liked to take people under his wing and show them the ropes.
Dru liked to travel and visit family, spending quality time with the people he loved and knew best. He was a social butterfly and was always up for a good adventure. His favorite time of year was the first full week in August, Greencorn for the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe, and if ever he had a wish it would be that his tribe's Thanksgiving could last year long. He loved to sing and dance and be with his family and friends. He loved life and to live free.
He liked to read Harper Lee and liked the name Atticus from "To Kill a Mockingbird". He listened to everything, although rock and roll and country music he enjoyed the most, especially David Allan Coe.
He had his first daughter with Jessica Hatfield in 2010, Audrey Jo. His second daughter Sharika Jane "Rika", was born in 2013 to Brittany Bacon, two days before his third daughter Miekoda Feather was born to Brooke Bendure. Before biologically becoming a father, he had a very serious relationship with Hillary Madrid of Grove and was stepfather to her children, helping to raise them as his own.
He was a good uncle, brother, cousin, grandson, son, nephew and friend.
Was murdered around early November 2013 and body found in a ditch New Year's Eve 2014 by an Oklahoma Land Surveyour. Family and friends but had been searching desperately for him and had missing posters made up, filed missing persons reports in both Delaware and Ottawa Counties in Oklahoma. OSBI investigation was inconclusive and case was dismissed. No one knows what happened to him and the case has never been solved, no justice has been delivered.
Sources
first hand information
Delaware County Oklahoma Grove SUN Newspaper, January 2013 "Body Found by Fairland Oklahoma in NEOSHO River Tribuatry"
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