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There are limited digitized materials on or authored by Lyla Olson. Since many libraries are closed, I am having a hard time accessing primary sources to confirm or elaborate on general statements, e.g. "She was the director of nurses at the Mayo Clinic".
I cited the details that I could in her early life using government records available from https://www.mnhs.org/search/people. I'm not sure wikitree would be considered a reliable secondary sources compared to the original US Census records. I'm removing them from Sources on the Draft, but I will list them below in case they're of use for anyone else editing this page: