Obituary Record

Christine (Neilsen) Petersen
Died on 12/29/1969

Enterprise 1 Jan 1970

Services For Mrs. Christine Petersen Were Held Wed.

Services for Mrs. Christine Petersen, 82, of Fremont were held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont.

Burial was at Memorial Cemetery with Rev. Noel Vetter of Salem Lutheran Church officiating.

Mrs. Petersen died Monday morning at Dodge County Community Hospital.

Christine Nielsen was born Sept. 26, 1887, at Blair, and was married February 17, 1904, at Orum to Carl E. Petersen. He died February 13, 1948.

A resident of Washington County, Minn. and Saunders Co. before moving to Fremont in 1961, Mrs. Petersen was a member of Salem Lutheran Church Women, THEO Club at Salem Lutheran, and Evergreen Chapter 138, Order of Eastern Star at Cedar Bluffs.

Survivors include a son, Alfred C. Petersen, Kansas City, Kansas; three daughters, Mrs. George (Myrtle) Boschult and Mrs. Donald (Evelyn) Fleming, both of Herman, and Mrs. William (Ellen) Kendrick, Chandler, Ariz.; four sisters, Mrs. Martha Ballinger, Slayton, Minn., Mrs. Alice Erickson, Mrs. Elizabeth Byam, and Mrs. Mildred Leverenz, all of Windom, Minn.; four brothers, Chris, Sioux Falls, S.D., Fred and Emmanuel, both of Walnut Grove, Minn.; and Hans, Windom, Minn.; 15 grandchildren; 25 great-grand-children; and two great-great grandchildren.

Memorials may be given to Salem Lutheran Church or the Cancer Fund.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

FindaGrave # 42870066

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 1/1/1970


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