Nellie M. Helmers Peterson 1901-1997

PETERSON, HELMERS, SHULLER, LILLAND, KABELE, ROHLFSEN, KYLER, OLSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 2/14/2013 at 20:28:03

Nellie Peterson
Estherville – Services for Nellie M. Peterson, 94, of Estherville, will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Mark Gabbard officiating. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery. She died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1997 at Dickinson County Memorial Hospital at Spirit Lake.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until noon Saturday at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home and until time of services at the Church.

She was born Aug. 11, 1902 [per ss death index, 1901] in Onarga, Ill. the daughter of Robert and Thoma (Shuller) Helmers. She attended Storm Lake and Superior schools. On April 11, 1935 she married Cuyler Peterson at Albert Lea, Minn. After her marriage the couple farmed in the Ringsted area until retiring in 1952 and moving into Estherville. In 1963, they moved to live on Big Spirit Lake. In 1977, the couple moved back to Estherville. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Women and Church Circle.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Larry (Karon) Lilland of Spirit Lake; granddaughters, Kathy Kabele, Spirit Lake and Kris Rohlfsen, Odssa, Mo.; great grandsons, Brandon Kyler and Derek Rohlfsen of Odessa, Mo.; one sister, Ida Olson of Good Samaritan Center in Estherville.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband March 14, 1978; four sisters and five brothers. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, January 31, 1997)