Peters, Mary Pearl (1921-1938)

PETERS

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/25/2017 at 15:55:03

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Monday, March 14, 1938

SCARLET FEVER CAUSES DEATH

Mary Peters, 17, Dies at Farm Home After Week's Illness.

Scarlet fever proved fatal to Miss Mary Pearl Peters, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Peters, living five miles south of here, the young woman dying late Saturday afternoon after a week's illness.

Private funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Foster funeral home with the Rev. J.E. Bruner, Baptist pastor, officiating; burial in Graceland cemetery.

Miss Peters leaves her parents, a sister, Evelyn, and three brothers, Earl, Vernon and Victor.

She was born at California, Mo., March 13, 1921, and would have been 17 had she lived a day longer. The family moved to Hamilton county a year ago and worked on the Joe Katzer farm. March 1 they moved to the Otto Arnold farm.

Miss Peters attended the rural schools near her home.