PETERSON, Irene Elaine (nee Lovik)(Oettchen) 1924-2002

PETERSON, STRAND, LOVIK

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/6/2009 at 09:44:15

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IRENE E. PETERSON

RICEVILLE, IOWA - Irene Elaine Peterson, 77, of Riceville, died Sunday (Aug. 25, 2002) at the Riceville Community Rest Home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Riceville with the Rev. Michael Parris officiating. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery in rural Riceville.

Visitation will be held from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. today at the Lindstrom Funeral Home in Riceville and one hour prior to services on Wednesday at the church.

Conway Funeral Home, (641) 985-2242.

Globe Gazette, Aug. 27, 2002
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Irene Elaine Peterson, age 77, of Riceville, passed away from cancer at the Riceville Community Rest Home, on Sunday, August 25, 2002. She entered the rest home on August 19, 2002.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, August 28, at the St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Riceville. Rev. Michael Parris will officiate with burial to be in the St. Peter's Cemetery, rural Riceville. Friends may call at the Lindstrom Funeral Home in Riceville, on Tuesday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and one hour before the services on Wednesday at the church.

Irene was born the daughter of Swen and Hilma (Strand) Lovik, on September 19, 1924 in rural Ventura, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and was a member of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Riceville. She attended Ventura Schools graduating in 1943 from the Ventura High School. Irene was united in marriage to Robert Oettchen on June 2, 1951 and they resided on the family farm south of Clear Lake. Her three children, Russell, Verlyn and Elaine were born while they lived there.

In 1971, the family moved to a farm at Riceville, Iowa. Her husband, Robert passed away in 1972 and she remarried on February 14, 1973 to Carl Peterson. They remained on the farm. Carl passed away in 1992.

Irene worked in various nursing homes and loved to sew and work in the garden. She was a devoted mother and grandmother.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her two husbands; one daughter, Elaine Oettchen in the year 2000; a sister, Edythe Otis; five brothers, Roy, Harry, Norman, Roy and Duane Lovick; and five sisters-in-law and one brother-in-law.

She is survived by two sons, Russell Oettchen of Riceville and Verlyn Oettchen of Chester, Iowa; two grandsons, Brandon and Avery Oettchen; three brothers, Orville and his wife of Gulfport, Mississippi, Lloyd and his wife of Bullhead, Arizona and Virgil and his wife of Fertile, Iowa; and several nieces and nephews.

[ Mitchell County Press - August 28, 2002 ]