PETERSEN, Horace C.

PETERSEN, MIENEKE, PETERSON, CHRISTENSEN, DEBERG, NASH

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/24/2013 at 11:49:06

Horace C. Petersen, 90, 707 Elm St. E., Rockwell, Iowa, died Sunday, May
11, 2003, at Mercy Medical Center East, Mason City, Iowa. His funeral
service will be held Friday, May 16, at Zion Lutheran Church, Clear Lake, with
the Rev. Dean Hess officiating. Following the service his body will be cremated.
Inurnment will be held Saturday, May 17, 10 a.m. at the Clear Lake Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Horace C. Petersen Memorial Fund.

Horace was born Dec. 22, 1912, in Ellington Township, (Rural Miller), Iowa, the
son of Fred W. and Lillie Bergeta (Mieneke) Petersen. After school he farmed in
the Clear Lake area. He married Lois Marcille Peterson Feb. 9, 1938 in Mason
City, Iowa. He later worked construction for Peterson Construction in Clear
Lake.

Horace loved fishing, watching sports on TV, playing cards and woodworking. In
his younger days, he enjoyed playing softball and dancing at the Surf Ballroom.
He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake.

Horace is survived by his five children, Peggy Christensen and her husband,
Dick, Daytona Beach, Fla., Pat DeBerg and her husband, Newt, Iowa Falls, Iowa,
Bob Petersen, Clear Lake, Joan Nash and her husband, Jim, Antelope, Calif. and
Doug Petersen and his wife, Jackie, Clear Lake; seven grandchildren; thirteen
great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Evelyn Petersen, Folsom, Calif. and
Marilyn Ralston, Folsom, Calif.