Obit: Petersen, Agnes (1909 - 1961)

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Surnames: Petersen, Wellner

----Source: ABBOTSFORD TRIBUNE (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 03/23/1961

Petersen, Agnes (3 MAR 1909 - 19 MAR 1961)

Funeral services for Miss Agnes Petersen, 52, who died at Lake Forest, Ill., Sunday morning, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Peace Evangelical and Reformed Church, Dorchester (Clark Co., Wis.), with the Fred Kollath officiating.  Burial will be made in the church cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Polnaszek Funeral Home at Abbotsford until noon, when it will be taken to the church.

Miss Petersen was born in Big Flats March 3, 1909, and came to the town of Holton with her parents in 1918.  She attended rural schools in the area and for a number of years has been employed as a domestic in Lake Forest.

She is survived by three brothers, Hans and Walter of Milwaukee, and Henry, town of Holton, and two sisters, Mrs. Wade Wellner, Hancock, and Miss Anne Petersen, Lake Forest.

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Petersen, preceded her in death in the past two years.