PEDERSEN, Arnt B. 1891-1968

PEDERSEN, OSTENSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/22/2009 at 10:43:31

Arnt B. Pedersen Funeral Held at First Lutheran

Funeral services for Arnt B. Pedersen, 77, of Mound, Minnesota who died at a Watertown, Minnesota hospital February 12, 1968 were held February 16 at 1 P.M. at First Lutheran Church here with the Reverend Don Comnick officiating.

Burial was in Six Mile Grove Lutheran Cemetery near Lyle.

Arnt B. Peterson was born on November 25, 1891 in Tromsoe, Norway, the son of Tobias and Hannah Pedersen. He came to the United States at the age of 15 with his parents, settling in Grinnell where relatives were living. Later the family moved to Minneapolis where the father and two sons started a painting business which continued until 1940 when the elder Pedersen died.

Sometime later Mr. Arnt Pedersen, an interior decorator, retired from his business and moved to Mound, Minnesota on Lake Minnetonka.

Mr. Pedersen and his family were members of the Free Church in Norway.

Survivors include his wife, the former Lillian Ostenson of Lyle, and now of Mound; one brother, John of Plymouth, Minnesota; one sister, Mrs. Hedwig Angelikis of Minneapolis.

[St. Ansgar Enterprise, 1968 – St. Ansgar Museum collections]