PETERSEN, Pearl E. 1909 - 2012

PETERSON, PETERSEN, CARMEN, SEVERN, WORTH, LEE, BOESE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 11/20/2012 at 14:25:20

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Page 8

Pearl E. PETERSON (sic)

Pearl E. PETERSON (sic), 103, formerly of Keosauqua, died at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, at Parkview Care Center in Fairfield.

Arrangements are pending at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Page 8

Pearl E. PETERSEN

The Rev. Pearl E. PETERSEN, 103, formerly of Keosauqua, died at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, at Parkview Care Center in Fairfield.

A graveside service and burial is at 1 p.m. Monday in Highland Cemetery, Ottawa, Kan., with Mark Petersen officiating.

Visitation is 2-5 p.m. Friday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua.

Memorials to Jews for Jesus may be left at the funeral home.

Mrs. PETERSEN was born March 6, 1909, near Glenwood, the daughter of John and Edna CARMEN SEVERN. She married Louis W. PETERSEN, April 4, 1948 in the Presbyterian Church in Sigourney. He died March 4, 1988.

She grew up in Council Bluffs, graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs and from Missionary Bible College in Tabor. She took graduate studies at William Penn College, University of Iowa, Omaha University and Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Omaha.

She was superintendent of Hope Mission in Omaha and worked at Christian Children's Home in Council Bluffs.

She was ordained a minister in the Christian Church in Lancaster, where she started a children's choir.

She was pastor at the Church of the Brethren in Albia, and conducted evangelistic services in South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.

She was a social welfare director for Keokuk County in Sigourney.

She taught in rural Pottawattamie and Greene counties' schools, as well as in Keswick and Deep River-Millersburg schools, all in Iowa.

She was a delegate to the National Education Association convention in New York City in 1965.

She and her husband farmed in Iowa County and moved to Ottawa, Kan., in 1977. She moved to Keosauqua in 1993.

She was affiliated with Zion Bible Church in Douds.

Survivors include one son, Louis PETERSEN, Jr., of Keosauqua; one stepson, Donald PETERSEN of Prescott, Ariz.; one stepdaughter, Phyllis WORTH of Ottawa; two granddaughters; 11 step-grandchildren; several great grandchildren; one brother, Herbert SEVERN of Gamaliel, Ark.; and two sisters, Ilamarie LEE of Newton, Kan., and Goldie BOESE of Oskaloosa.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents.

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