Lewis A. Peterson (1878-1947)

PETERSON, HENDRICKSON, NELSON, ANDERSON, WEST

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/24/2021 at 14:40:20

From Nevada Evening Journal April 11, 1947 (page 3)

Funeral Services Held Tuesday for Lewis A. Peterson

Story City, April 19 -- Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 8 at 2 o'clock in the Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church in Story City following a prayer service at the home for Lewis A. Peterson who died Saturday morning April 5. Rev. W. E. Ulrich officiated and burial was in the Story City Cemetery. Mrs. Vernon Anderson rendered two vocal solos at the church accompanied on the organ by Barbara Peterson. Pallbearers were Nels P. Larson, Martin Jensen, Osmund Holland, Hans Hendrickson, Martin S. Olson and Ole Olson.

Lewis A. Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Peterson, was born March 20, 1878 on a farm five miles northwest of Story City. He passed quietly and peacefully away at his home in Story City on April 5, at the age of 69 years and 16 days. He had been in failing health for the past ten or twelve years prior to his death. However in spite of his suffering he never complained. He was a devoted husband and a loving father. Those memories will always linger in the minds of his dear ones.

He was baptized in the Lutheran Church when he was a child. On March 19, 1902 he was united in marriage to Mary Nelson. Two children were born to this union, namely: Alma, now Mrs. Fred Hendrickson, and Lloyd Peterson, both of Story City. Both children survive their father along with his devoted wife.

Mr. Peterson lived on a farm five and a half miles northwest of Story City until the year of 1933 when with his wife he moved to Story City. Besides his immediate family Mr. Peterson has left to mourn his death a brother Hans Peterson of Niagara, N. Dak., three sisters, Mrs. Will W. Nelson of Ft. Dodge, Mrs. L. P. Anderson, and Mrs. Henry West of Story City and many other relatives and friends. One brother, Peter Peterson, preceded him in death two years ago.