----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 10/03/2001
 

Peterson, Betty Esselman (1937 - 2001)

Betty Marie Esselman Peterson, 64, Abbotsford, Clark County, died on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001, at Saint Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at St. Bernard's Catholic Church, Abbotsford. The Rev. Al Jakobowski officiated. Burial was in the Abbotsford Public Cemetery. Grandsons and nephews served as pallbearers.

Betty Marie Smazal was born on July 30, 1937, in Fenwood, Marathon County, to Charles and Clara (nee Ress) Smazal. She received her early education in the Fenwood Schools. She married Robert Esselman on Nov. 22, 1958, in Marshfield. The reside in rural Abbotsford and moved to Abbotsford in 1987, when she had resided since. He died on Jan. 1, 1985. She married Wayne Peterson in 1999, in Carson City, Nev. She was a homemaker and was also employed with Marshfield Canning Company and Abbyland Foods, Abbotsford. She was a member of St. Bernard's Catholic Church and the Parish Council of Catholic Women.

Survivors include her husband, Wayne Peterson, Abbotsford, her children, Patricia Esselman, Wausau, Susan Esselman, Abbotsford, Michael (Barbara) Esselman, Tomahawk, Ray (Diane) Esselman, Abbotsford, and Alan Esselman, Abbotsford four grandchildren two great-grandchildren four brothers, Eugene (Irene) Smazal, Colby, Victor (Caroline) Smazal, Colby, Ken (Judy) Smazal, Abbotsford, and Don (Shirley) Smazal, Colby seven sisters, Delores (Clarence) Petri, Auburndale, Jeanette (John) Seehafer, Wausau, Carol (Ronald Krueger, Abbotsford, Beverly Galowski, Medford, Clara Schwants, Wausau, Marcella Smazal, Colby, and Marlene Galowski, Omro.

Preceding her in death were her parents her first husband, Robert Esselman two sister, Bernice and Diane and two brothers, Chuck and Eddie.

Maurina Funeral Home, Abbotsford, assisted the family with arrangements.