Peterson, Sharyl Rae 1943 - 1972

PETERSON, MANN

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/1/2011 at 10:09:36

Former Akron Woman Takes Her Own Life

The body of a young mother of six children Mrs. Larry Peterson, 29, 1626 Villa Ave., Sioux City, was found hanging in the basement of her home early Friday (September 29, 1972) and Dr. Thomas Coriden, Woodbury county medical examiner, termed it suicide and said death was due to strangulation by hanging.

Mrs. Peterson was found with an electrical extension cord around her neck hanging from a pipe in the basement ceiling, Dr. Coriden said. She had been due to deliver her seventh child this week and the unborn child also was dead, he added.

Mrs. Peterson's husband left the house at 9 p.m. Thursday to go to work at Iowa Beef Processors. The body was found by one of the children, who went looking for her mother when she awakened before 3 a.m. and found her mother wasn't in bed. Dr. Coriden said Mrs. Peterson had been dead since about 11 p.m. Thursday (September 28,1972).

Funeral services were 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Manning-O'Toole funeral home, Sioux City, with Richard F. Brandt of the Sioux City Baptist Church officiating. Burial was in Logan Park cemetery.

Pallbearers were Raymond Mahan, Lorrell Wetrosky, David and Larry Waterman, Donald McMannama Jr. and Lloyd Strong, Jr.

Mrs. Peterson the former Sharyl Rae Mann, was born January 23,1943,in Akron. She was married March 1,1968, in North Sioux City. Mrs. Peterson had been a resident of Sioux City since moving there as a child. She was a member of the Sioux City Baptist church.

Survivors are her husband; four sons, Gary, Russell, Gregory and Larryjo, all at home; two daughters, Patty and Kimberly, both at home; a stepdaughter, Tracey, at home; her mother, Mrs. Pearl Mann of Sioux City; two brothers, Dallas and Steven, both of Sioux City; six sisters, Mrs. Robert (Donna) Cole of Melpitis, Calif., Mrs. Virgil (Sharon) Heiner, Mrs. Clifford (Lorna) Mann, Mrs. Ralph (Lynette) Coolk, Mrs. Richard (Marlene) Hunt and Mrs. Richard (Marlys) Mann, all of Sioux City and her grandmothers, Mrs. Nettie Mann of Akron and Mrs. Lula Strong of Hawarden.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, October 5, 1972
Akron, Iowa