Harold Gene PETERSON

PETERSON, ORR, RYAN, CUTLER, HOYER, JOHNSTON, MILLER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/17/2014 at 20:00:58

February 7, 1948 --- April 28, 1999

Harold Gene Peterson, son of Arthur and Alia Orr Peterson, was born February 7, 1948, at Fort Dodge, Iowa. He received his education in the Eagle Grove, Iowa, schools, graduating in 1966. He served with the U. S. Navy from 1967 to 1975 as an electronics specialist. Tn 1968, he married Rita Ryan in Las Vegas, Nev. They were divorced in 1982. On February 2, 1998, he married Lorraine (Lori) Cutler at Duncombe, Iowa. Following his discharge from the Navy, he worked in electronics in civil service for 13 years. For four years, he worked at Cable-Tech in California. In 1991, he moved to Duncombe and operated Pete's Place, a bar and restaurant, in Duncombe until 1997. He then worked parttime for Duncombe area farmers and the NEW Cooperative.

Harold Gene Peterson died Wednesday, April 28, 1999, at the Hamilton Hospital in Webster City, Iowa, at the age of 51. Survivors include his wife, Lori; son, Harold Peterson, and daughter, Leslie Peterson, both of El Cajon, Calif.; step-children, David and Toni Hoyer, Renton, Wash., Lisa and Ian Johnston, Madison, Ala.; two grandchildren; one step-grandson; one brother, James (J.P.) Peterson, Fort Dodge; one sister, Jean A. Miller, Webster City; parents, Arthur and Alta Peterson, Fort Dodge; maternal grandmother, Anne Orr, Eagle Grove; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his grandparents.

Memorial services were held Saturday, May 1, 1999, at 7:30 pm. at the Foster Funeral Home in Webster City with the Reverend Paul Stone
officiating. Foster Funeral Home in Webster City was in charge of arrangements.

Eagle Grove Eagle - Iowa
May 5, 1999