Mr. Peterson, of 1917 N. Shore Drive, died Wednesday (June 25, 1980) at a Mason City hospital.
Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Friday at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake.
Mr. Peterson was graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1965; from Waldorf College, Forest City, in 1967; and from Wartburg College, at Waverly, in 1969.
After college he worked for Dun & Bradstreet before moving to San Diego, Calif., where he worked for about six years with Color Tile Imports. He retired and returned to Iowa in 1979 due to ill health.
Survivors include his parents, Merrill and Esther Peterson, Clear Lake; two sisters, Mrs. Patricia Raikes, De-Witt, and Mrs. Barbara Weiblen, Boston, Mass., and his paternal grandparents, Mr and Mrs. Porter Peterson, San Diego, Calif.
The family asks memorials be given to Galilean Lutheran Church.
Clear Lake - Funeral services for Stephen M. Peterson, 33,
will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the Galilean Lutheran Church, Clear Lake,
the Rev. Les Gyllstrom officiating.
Burial will be in the Clear Lake Cemetery.
If you would like to add your memories of Steve,
please send them to Jacque or Bonnie to be posted immediately.
Hi,
This is Steve Peterson's mother, and I am replying to your Email to Barb Weiblen, my daughter. I have recently moved, and all the pictures and mementoes of Steve's life are in a box in the attic above the garage and I cannot readily get at them. But here is a brief report of Steve's life after graduation from CL high school.
Steve graduated from Waldorf, and then went on to graduate from Wartburg. For a few years he worked at various jobs, then went to work for Pier I Imports. He was a manager for various stores in California, in Tucson, and Minneapolis. In late 1979 he was diagnosed with advanced Hodgkins Disease, and died in June, 1980 at the age of 33. Steve was 6' 9" tall, and we thought of him as our "Gentle Giant"
P.S. Barb still plays a lot of flute. She plays in the Concord (MA) Band, is soloist at her church, and directs a flute choir.
