Rev. Harry L. PETERSON

PETERSON, MANDSAGER, SWELLAND, GREDVIG, MURILLO, SKOGEN, AARSVOLD, ESTES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:54

June 18, 1930 --- September 19, 2007

BYRON. MN — The funeral for the Rev. Harry L. Peterson will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First English Lutheran Church in Faribault, Minn. The Rev. Richard L. Jorgensen will officiate. Interment will be in South Zumbro Lutheran Church Cemetery in rural Kasson.

Rev. Peterson, 77, died Wednesday (Sept. 19, 2007) at the Infinia at Faribault Care Center, following a lengthy illness. He was born June 18, 1930, in Badger, Iowa [to Harry and Julia (Mandsager) Peterson. His family moved to Minnesota in 1941, and he graduated from Byron High School in 1950. He joined the Navy and served as a hospital corpsman until his discharge in 1955. On May 2, 1954, he married Vivian Swelland of Kenyon. In 1959 he graduated from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. They moved to Faribault, where he worked as a Rice County social worker until 1966. He then entered Luther Seminary in St. Paul, graduating in 1970. Rev. Peterson served four congregations in Iowa: Garnavillo-Clayton, Waukee, Kensett and Clermont. He retired in 1996 and moved to Faribault. He served two interims, in Moland and Cleveland, Minn.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Vian (Ronald) Gredvig of Minnetonka, Minn., and Mary (Victor) Murillo of Van Meter, Iowa; three sons, Bruce and Charles (Christie), both of Oskaloosa, Kan., and Steven (Alyssa) of Glenwood, Iowa; six grandchildren; three sisters, Burnette Skogen and Lillian (Donald) Aarsvold, both of Kasson, and Mary Jo Estes of Cary, N.C.; and two brothers, the Rev. Harold (Pearl) of Bella Vista, Ark., and the Rev. James (Mary Jo) of Byron. He was preceded in death by an infant son.

Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today at Parker Kohl Funeral Home in Faribault, and an hour before the service Saturday at the church.