Clara M. Peterson Van Derveer O'Neil 1909-1973

ONEIL, VAN DERVEER, PETERSON, OSTLUND, BARBAS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/30/2014 at 23:36:15

Sister-in-Law of Estherville Woman Dies
Word was received Tuesday of the death of Mrs. William J. (Clara) O’Neil of Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. O’Neil passed away Tuesday at Brian Memorial Hospital at Lincoln, of cancer.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at Lincoln with burial and graveside services at Dolliver on Friday.

Mrs. O’Neil is the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Louis Barbas of Estherville. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, November 28, 1973)

Mrs. O’Neil Services Set Friday
Graveside services for Mrs. William J. O’Neil of Lincoln, Neb., will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in Dolliver Cemetery, with the Rev. Edward R. Baack, pastor of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Lincoln, officiating.

Mrs. O’Neil died Nov. 27 in Lincoln and funeral services are being held there today. The body will be brought to Fuhrman Funeral Home, Estherville, where friends may visit after 10 a.m. Friday until time of services at the cemetery.

She was Clara M. Peterson, born Sept. 15, 1909 in Jewell, Iowa, to Mr. and Mrs. Lars Peterson. When she was one-year-old, the family moved to the Dolliver vicinity where she grew up.

She is survived by her husband, William J. O’Neil of Lincoln; one daughter, Mrs. Gordon (Frankie) Ostlund, Lexington, Neb.; four grandsons, two great-grandchildren; two brothers, Melvin Peterson, Sioux City, and Le Roy R. Peterson, Fort Dodge.

Preceding her in death were her first husband, Earl K. Van Derveer, who was killed during World War II, and her parents. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA November 29, 1973)