Personal Life
He married his wife Mary, whom he met when both were San Francisco teenagers in the mid 1940s, in 1952. He and Mary lived in the same Los Angeles home from the time he played for the Los Angeles Rams until his death. The site is being nominated as the 'Ollie and Mary Matson Residence', a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
In his later years Matson suffered from dementia, which was linked to Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),a progressive degenerative disease, diagnosed post-mortem in individuals with a history of multiple concussions and other forms of head injury. According to his nephew Art Thompson III, Matson had been mostly bedridden for several years due to a form of dementia, and hadn't spoken in four years.
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