Joe N. Petersen 1881-1957

PETERSEN, PETERSON, THOMSEN, BALLAH, DOOLITTLE, FOX, LOE

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 2/3/2013 at 22:04:36

Heart Ailment is Fatal to Joe Petersen
Joe N. Petersen, 76, longtime and well known resident of Estherville, died yesterday at 3:15 p.m. at his home of a heart ailment. Mr. Petersen has had heart trouble for the past 20 years but had been seriously ill for the past few weeks.

Born Sept. 1, 1881 at Hjorring, Denmark, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Niels Peder Petersen, he grew to young manhood there and came to the United States in 1900.

After working in Colorado for two years he returned to Denmark in 1902 and served for 14 months in the peacetime army. Following his release from the Army, he once more embarked for the United States and after living for a time in California he came to Emmetsburg in 1904 where he was married to Else Kristine Thomsen, also for Hjoring, Denmark.

The young couple moved to Estherville that same year and for 24 years Mr. Petersen was employed by the Rock Island Railway. A short time after leaving the railroad he began work for the city of Estherville and continued in that work until his retirement in 1951.

Mr. Petersen was a longtime member of the Estherville Christian Church.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, Peter of Victor, and William of Oxford; six daughters, Mrs. William Ballah, St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. John Doolittle, Charles City; Mrs. Harold Fox, Spirit Lake; Mrs. Peder Loe, Mary Petersen and Martina Petersen, all of Estherville; 13 grandchildren and one brother, Peter K. Petersen of San Francisco, Calif. who arrived here recently to help care for his brother.

Mr. Petersen was preceded in death by an infant son, his parents and two sisters.

Funeral services are to be Wednesday with a family service at 1:30 p.m. at the Sandin-Fuhrman Funeral Home and at 2 p.m. at the Estherville Christian Church, the Rev. Lester Strubhar officiating. Burial will be in East Side Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Harry Jones, George Lyman, C.P. Mauck, J.W.Van Valkenburg, Arnold Eisenhower and Lowell Morris.

Friends may call at Sandin-Fuhrman Funeral Home from this evening until time of services. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, April 1, 1957)