Augusta Carolina Peterson, 1856-1923

PETERSON, JOHNSON, BERNER, BERMAN

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Date: 2/8/2011 at 17:46:58

The many friends of Mrs. C.A. Peterson were grieved on Wednesday to learn that she had passed away at her home on East Fifth street. Mrs. Peterson had been ill for many years and during the past two year she had been a constant sufferer. Her death was due to a complication of diseases of which diabetes predominated. During the past four months her suffering had been intense and she has been rendered practically helpless. Death came at four o'clock Wednesday afternoon, March 28.

Augusta Carolina Peterson was sixty-six years and six months of age at the time of her death. She was born in Ostergothland, Sweden, on September 28, 1856, and grew to young womanhood at that place. On July 5, 1878, she was united in marriage to Carl A. Peterson and shortly after their marriage they came to the United States and settled first at Ames, Iowa, where they lived for nine years. They then moved to Scranton, Iowa, where they lived until 1901, when they came to spencer. Since coming to the United States Mr. Peterson had been connected first with the Northwestern and later with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway companies.

Mrs. Peterson became the mother of eight children. Two daughters died in infancy and one son, Carl Peterson, was drowned in the river at Council Bluffs at the age of sixteen years. The children who remain with the father to mourn the loss of their mother are Mrs. Segrid Johnson, ____, Iowa; Mrs. Eleanor Berman, Storm Lake, Iowa, Mrs. Bessie Berner, Spencer, Iowa, Elmer C. Peterson of Dubuque, Iowa, and Arthur H. Peterson of this city. Besides her children and her husband she is survived by one brother in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mrs. Peterson was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith in early childhood and during her life was always active in the service of her church. She was a woman of refinement and character, a devoted mother and a woman whose interest centered largely about her home. By her unselfishness and goodness she held the love of her husband and children and won the love of all her neighbors and friends.

Funeral services were conducted on Saturday afternoon at the Peterson residence on East Fifth street at one-thirty o'clock and at two o'clock at the Swedish Lutheran church. Rev. I. Gertsen, pastor of the Danish Lutheran church conducted the services. Burial was made in Riverside cemetery.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; April 4, 1923.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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