Marion Peterson

Marion Adelia Peterson, 89, St. Petersburg, Fla., died Sunday. Born March 4, 1917, in Cedar, Minn., to Carl and Emmy (Holmes) Peterson, she attended school through the eighth grade and later received a high school diploma through correspondence. She went to the Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta Canada, for three years and then went to Minneapolis as a house worker. When her mother became ill she moved to Welch to car for her until her death. In 1956 she recieved a call to join the mission field in Liberia, West Africa, where she joined her sister Ella; she was there for 16 years. They returned to the U.S. to care for their eldest sister, Martha, in Corona, Calif., and stayed there until her death. The sisters retired to St. Petersburg in 1989. She was a member of the American Bible Society, World Wide Missions, Bethany Fellowship, WEC International and Hope Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg.
Surviving are 32 nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by five brothers, North, Chester, Carl, Seth, and Willie Peterson; and nine sisters, Eva, Pearl, Sophie and Ella Peterson, Martha Palmgren, Julia Daestle, , Florina Anderson, Mathilda Burns, Hilda Holmgren and Blenda Neuendorf.