Peter Charles DANIELS

DANIELS, MOSIMAN, PATTERSON, KIRTLAND, CAMPBELL, DELVAUX, FLEMING

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/13/2009 at 11:25:13

BELMOND, IA - Peter Charles Daniels passed away on Monday (Dec. 7, 2009) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Andrews Funeral Home, 516 First St. S.E. in Belmond, with Pastor Steve Cox of the Regular Baptist Church in Clear Lake officiating. Burial will be with full military honors in the Belmond Cemetery. His viewing will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Andrews Funeral Home in Belmond, and one hour prior to the funeral services on Saturday.

Peter Charles Daniels was born Dec. 30, 1915, at Palsville, Iowa, to Ben and Martha Daniels of Belmond. Peter grew up and attended school at Belmond. He then joined the Civil Conservation Corp Camp for a short time. Peter married his high school sweetheart, Esther H. Mosiman on Sept. 15, 1938, the daughter of Simon and Cathryn Patterson Mosiman at Webster City. They both worked for Guy and Hazel Lynch for two years. He then worked for Thompson Seed Company for several years, until he went to work on the Alaskan Alcan Highway. When he returned, he was drafted into the Navy during World War II where he spent two years in the Aleutian Islands. He received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1945. After returning from service, he completed his first house which he sold to Donald Porter. He then built the first ranch house in Belmond and sold it to Dr. Pitcher. He then farmed for seven years in Minnesota and Iowa. Through all of his moves, it always brought him back to Belmond. He went back into construction and built another house and sold it to Senator Hugh Clark. He built numerous homes in Belmond and the surrounding areas, plus eight nursing homes before retiring. He retired to an acreage in Garner and while there he had a huge garden and attended and sold his vegetables at Farmers Market. He could grow the biggest and best vegetables and he kept his customers coming back to him all the time. He also grew a pumpkin patch that he tended to every day so the bugs couldn't eat the seed before the pumpkins could grow. He would sell his pumpkins from the acreage where he lived. Peter was also an avid fisherman. He loved to fish and knew all the fishing holes near and far but never divulged them. His answer was always the Iowa River. Peter was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church for over 50 years and at Belmond and over 20 years at the Clear Lake Regular Baptist Church. Peter loved his family, was a good provider and his kids' needs always came first.

Three boys were born to this union, Dwight P. (Rita), Charles (Jerene), and Timothy (Dixie); seven grandchildren, Steven (Susan) Daniels, Rochelle (Jon Kirtland), Dana (Joel Campbell) Becky (John Delvaux), Jodi (Clinton Fleming), Peter B. Daniels, and Kandyce Daniels. Eight great-grandchildren, Andy, Tyler, and Ben Kirtland, and Aaron and Emily Grace Campbell, Elizabeth and Tommy Delvaux and Eliana Fleming. Preceding him in death were his parents, Ben and Martha; his brother, Bernard; and his sister, Jeanette. He leaves to mourn his wife of 73 years, Esther H. Daniels; his three sons and their wives, Dwight and Rita, Charles and Jerene, and Timothy and Dixie Daniels, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial in Pete's name, may consider Muse Norris Hospice or their choice. Andrews Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette
December 11, 2009