REV. PEARL E. PETERSEN
The Rev. Pearl E. Petersen, 103, formerly of Keosauqua, Iowa, died at 7:30 a.m. ...
The Rev. Pearl E. Petersen, 103, formerly of Keosauqua, Iowa, died at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday Nov. 14, 2012, at Parkview Care Center, Fairfield.
Graveside services and burial are planned for 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, at Highland Cemetery, Ottawa, with Mark Petersen officiating.
She was born March 6, 1909, near Glenwood, Iowa, to John and Edna Carmen Severn.
She married Louis W. Petersen April 4, 1948, in the Presbyterian Church, Sigourney, Iowa. He died March 4, 1988.
She grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa, graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School there and from Missionary Bible College, Tabor, Iowa.
She took graduate work at William Penn College, University of Iowa, Omaha University and Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Omaha. She was superintendent of Hope Mission, Omaha, Neb.; worked at Christian Children’s Home, Council Bluffs, Iowa; was ordained as a minister in the Christian Church, Lancaster, Iowa, where she started a children’s choir; pastored the Church of the Brethren, Albia, Iowa, and conducted evangelistic services in South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.
She was social welfare director for Keokuk County, Sigourney, taught in rural Pottawattamie and Greene County schools and in Keswick and Deep River-Millersburg schools, all in Iowa, and was a delegate to the National Education Association Convention in New York City in 1965.
She and her husband farmed in Iowa County, moved to Ottawa in 1977, then she moved to Keosauqua, Iowa, in July, 1993. She was affiliated with Zion Bible Church, Douds, Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her husband and her parents.
Survivors include a son, Louis Petersen Jr., Keosauqua, Iowa; a stepson, Donald Petersen, Prescott, Ariz.; a stepdaughter, Phyllis Worth, Ottawa; two granddaughters; 11 step-grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; a brother, Herbert Severn, Gamaliel, Ariz.; and two sisters, Ilamarie Lee, Newton, and Goldie Boese, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Memorials to Jews for Jesus may be left at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. Box 14, Ottawa KS 66067 or mailed to the family at P.O. Box 403, Keosauqua IA 52565.
Graveside services and burial are planned for 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, at Highland Cemetery, Ottawa, with Mark Petersen officiating.
She was born March 6, 1909, near Glenwood, Iowa, to John and Edna Carmen Severn.
She married Louis W. Petersen April 4, 1948, in the Presbyterian Church, Sigourney, Iowa. He died March 4, 1988.
She grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa, graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School there and from Missionary Bible College, Tabor, Iowa.
She took graduate work at William Penn College, University of Iowa, Omaha University and Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Omaha. She was superintendent of Hope Mission, Omaha, Neb.; worked at Christian Children’s Home, Council Bluffs, Iowa; was ordained as a minister in the Christian Church, Lancaster, Iowa, where she started a children’s choir; pastored the Church of the Brethren, Albia, Iowa, and conducted evangelistic services in South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.
She was social welfare director for Keokuk County, Sigourney, taught in rural Pottawattamie and Greene County schools and in Keswick and Deep River-Millersburg schools, all in Iowa, and was a delegate to the National Education Association Convention in New York City in 1965.
She and her husband farmed in Iowa County, moved to Ottawa in 1977, then she moved to Keosauqua, Iowa, in July, 1993. She was affiliated with Zion Bible Church, Douds, Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her husband and her parents.
Survivors include a son, Louis Petersen Jr., Keosauqua, Iowa; a stepson, Donald Petersen, Prescott, Ariz.; a stepdaughter, Phyllis Worth, Ottawa; two granddaughters; 11 step-grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; a brother, Herbert Severn, Gamaliel, Ariz.; and two sisters, Ilamarie Lee, Newton, and Goldie Boese, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Memorials to Jews for Jesus may be left at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. Box 14, Ottawa KS 66067 or mailed to the family at P.O. Box 403, Keosauqua IA 52565.