PEDERSON, Boneta L. 1926-2003
PEDERSON, MANGEN, YOUNG
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/8/2009 at 20:08:01
ST. ANSGAR, IOWA — Boneta Pederson, 77, of St. Ansgar, died Sunday (March 16, 2003) at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church, Austin Minn. with the Rev. R. Allan Flint, officiating. Burial will be in Woodbury Cemetery in Lyle, Minn. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, 207 S. School St. in St. Ansgar.
Boneta L. Pederson was born February 7, 1926, to Harry A. and Agnes (Mangen) Young in Austin, Minn.
She married Olaf Pederson on October 22, 1944, in Austin, Minn. They were married during World War II. During the war, Boneta worked in a defense plant in the Twin Cities.
After Olaf returned from the Navy, they farmed on the family farm near Carpenter, Iowa. Boneta’s love was for her Lord and Savior and her family.
She enjoyed gardening and doing special things for her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She crocheted afghans and enjoyed baking and cooking and being a country wife. No one made sugar cookies like Grandma Bonnie. Boneta was an ordinary woman who had an extraordinary influence on her children and grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, and daughter, Beverly.
Boneta is survived by her husband, Olaf, of Carpenter; four sons, Donald and Penny Pederson, of Garner, and their children, Jessica and Frank Duregger, of Fort Myers, Fla., and their children, Chanel and Macy, Piper and Ross Charlton of Elizabethton, Tenn., and Cole Pederson of Garner; son Marvin and Jill Pederson, of Jeffers, Minn., and their children, Sara and Terry Hemann, of Little Cedar, and their children, Brooke, Jacob, and Kaitlyn, Josh Pederson of Mankato, Minn., Tim Pederson of Harlan, and Phil Pederson of Brookings, S.D.; son, Paul and Margaret, of Carpenter, and their children, Lucas and Stacy Brown and daughter, Ella Mae, of St. Angar, Nathan, Kjersti, and Sam, of Carpenter; son Steve and Sue Pederson, of Monticello, Ind., and their children, Kelsi, Israel, and Drew. Her grandchildren, Kris (Cooper) Gunn and husband, Tony and children, Austin and Kalee, of Los Angeles, Calif., Tom Cooper of Los Angeles, Calif., and Kathi (Cooper) Ferguson and husband, Kevin and children, Joshua and Grace, of Los Angeles, Calif.
Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, (641) 713-4920.
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