Zelma Mary (Schnebly) PETERSEN

PETERSEN, SCHNEBLY, GOODRICH, DICKENS, SCHILLING, SCHULTZ, PRIEBE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/28/2009 at 11:02:59

Clear Lake Mirror Reporter, Iowa
February 9, 2007

Zelma Mary Petersen, 76, Meservey, Iowa, died Feb. 9, 2007 at Weslaco, Texas. A memorial service will be held Saturday, April 14, 11 a.m., at the Clear Lake United Methodist Church, 508 2nd Ave N., with the Rev. Rose Calderson-Khan officiating and the Rev. Dennis Ganz as guest speaker. Visitation with family will be Friday from 5 -8 p.m., at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake. Inurnment will be at the Meservey Cemetery. Memorials may be given to Hospice of North Iowa. Zelma was born April 17, 1930, south of Kanawha, Iowa to Oliver Henry and Eva Belle (Goodrich) Schnebly. She moved with her family to Hayfield, Iowa in 1941 where she graduated from high school. She attended and graduated from Waldorf College. Zelma married Darreld Floyd Petersen Sr. in Algona, Iowa on Sept. 12, 1949. They moved near Fort Knox, Ky. until Darreld was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army. They moved to Forest City, Iowa in 1952 and in 1957 located to Clear Lake. Zelma worked for the Farm Bureau Insurance Co. in Algona, Lake Realty and Wood-N-Things in Clear Lake, and Bergo's in Mason City for 12 years. She was an "Eagle" member of "Hour of Power," Dr. Schuller's Air Crystal Cathedral Church, and a member of the United Methodist Church for the time she lived in Clear Lake. She was currently a member of the Salem United Methodist Church in Meservey, where she and her husband resided in the summer. She was a member of the UMW.

Zelma is survived by her husband, Darreld Floyd Petersen Sr.; four children, Darreld (Buzz) Petersen Jr. and wife, Beverly, of Clear Lake; Clifford Henry Petersen and wife, Mary, of Fertile, Iowa; William Boyd Petersen (Surf) and Margaret Dickens of Clear Lake; and Zelene Marie (Petersen) and husband, Mark Schilling, of Meservey; two sisters, Winona Schultz and Wanita Priebe; three brothers, Orvin Schnebly, Russell Schnebly, and Roger Schnebly; 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren along with many in-laws, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. Zelma was preceded in death by her parents in 1993; one grandson, Joey C. Petersen of Fertile in 1981; and one daughter-in-law, Diane Petersen of Clear Lake, in 2002.