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Hilda V (Steffen) Petersen (1900-1995)

STEFFEN, MOELLER, PETERSEN, BOBOLZ

Posted By: jane austin (email)
Date: 6/12/2021 at 21:05:24

Services in memory of Hilda V. Petersen were conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, January 3, 1995, at Saint Paul's Lutheran Church in Hartley. Rev. John Schauer officiated.

All of the grandsons served as casket bearers. Interment was in Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley, with Warner Baumgarten Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

Hilda V. Peterson, the daughter of Rudolf and Annie Moeller Steffen was born September 9, 1900, in Holstein, Iowa. She moved with her parents to O'Brien County, where she received her education in country schools. She then attended dressmakers school in Spencer.

Hilda married Julius August Petersen on September 17, 1919, in Primghar, Iowa. Throughout their married life they farmed in the communities of Royal, Sutherland, and Hartley, until retiring and moving into town in Hartley in 1962. For many years she was chairman of the Center Township Tuberculosis Association. She was a member of Saint Paul's Lutheran Church and Ladies Aide in Hartley. She had been a resident of the Mann Wing since 1988.

Mrs. Petersen passed away at the Community Memorial Health Center in Hartley, Iowa on Sunday, January 1, 1995 at the age of 94. She was preceded in death by her husband, Julius in 1972; one son, Rex, in 1980, a daughter-in-law, Darlene; two granddaughters, one brother, and one sister.

She is survived by three sons and their wives: Rudy and Maxine, and Emory and Elsin of Hartley; and Raynard of Spencer; one daughter and her husband, Mary Ann and Curt Bobolz of Hartley; a daughter-in-law, Mary Ann Petersen of Spirit Lake, Iowa; 18 grandchildren, 33 great grandchildren, two great great grandchildren; other relatives and friends.

Hartley (Iowa) Sentinel, 4 Jan 1995, p4


 

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