PETERSON, Clair (1916-2000)

PETERSON, GIFFORD, KINDEN, LEGLER, FILLMAN, HOLLATZ, BOEHNKE, MURRY, JUHL, EDEN, STRATTON, SCHROEDER

Posted By: Hancock Co Genealogical Society (email)
Date: 12/8/2012 at 21:42:27

IN LOVING MEMORY
CLAIR PETERSON
JANUARY 9, 1916 - SEPTEMBER 4, 2000

MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2000 - 10:30 A.M.
EWING FUNERAL CHAPEL, BRITT, IOWA

CLERGY
PASTOR CLYDE KIESCHNICK

Clair C. Peterson, 84, passed away Monday, September 4, 2000, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Clair, the son of Reuben and Evelyn Gifford Peterson, was born January 9, 1916, in Britt, Iowa. He graduated from Britt High School in 1935 and attended Britt Junior College for one year.

Clair was united in marriage to Muriel Kinden in Bethany, Missouri on December 31, 1940. The couple made their home in Des Moines for a short time. Clair was inducted into the United States Army in May of 1942. Following his discharge, the couple moved to Britt, where Clair was employed by Kreitinger Hardware and Oakes Plumbing and Heating. He later was employed by Winnebago Industries in the maintenance department, retiring in 1978. He was then employed at Hancock Country Memorial Hospital in Britt for a time.

Clair was united in marriage to Sarah Arla Legler on January 27, 1990, at Lake Okoboji. The couple made their home in Britt.

Clair was a lifetime member. of the VFW; he was also a Silver Star Senior Citizen in Britt.

He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Garner. He was a trustee at the First Lutheran Church in Britt for five years.

Clair is survived by his wife, Sarah, one daughter, Judy Fillman and her husband, Russell, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; three step-daughters: Dee Etta Hollatz and her husband, Mike, of Garner, Roseann Boehnke and her husband, Mark, of Garner, Arla Murry-Juhl and her husband, Steve, of Mason City; two granddaughters; eight step-grandchildren; one great-grandson; three sisters: Edna Eden of Britt, Verda Stratton of Britt, RuBee Schroeder and her husband, Emery, of Britt; one brother, Raymond Peterson and his wife, Charlotte, of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas and one sister-in-law, Jeanne Peterson of Forest
City.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, Muriel, and two brothers, Lewis and Calvin.

MUSIC
ORGANIST - BRENDA SMITH
CONGREGATIONAL HYMNS "THE OLD RUGGED CROSS"

INTERMENT
EVERGREEN CEMETERY BRITT, IOWA

MILITARY SERVICES
BRITT CEREMONIAL UNIT

WE DEEPLY APPRECIATE THE TRIBUTE ACCORDED OUR
LOVED ONE BY YOUR PRESENCE HERE TODAY.
THE FAMILY OF CLAIR PETERSON.

SERVICES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
EWING FUNERAL CHAPEL
BRITT, IOWA

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