Obit: Petersen, Nels R. (1872 - 1960)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Petersen, Kollath, Hansen, Wellner, Schlinsky

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Nels R. Petersen (17 Sep 1872 - 10 May 1960)

Nels R. Petersen, 87, died about 5:00 a.m. Tuesday at the farm here in the town of Holton which had been his home for 42 years. He had been in failing health the past year.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, May 13, from Peace Evangelical church here. Rev. Fred W. Kollath will officiate at the rites. Burial will be in the Peace cemetery under the direction of the Polnaszek Funeral Home of Abbotsford which has charge of the arrangements. The deceased lies in state at the Polnaszek Funeral Home.

Nels R. Peterson was born September 17, 1872, in Denmark. He immigrated to this country in 1892 and settled first at Racine where he worked on a farm about two years. He and Kirsten Hansen were married July 8, 1895, at Strongs Prairie in Adams county. They farmed in that community about 23 years. In 1918 they moved to the town of Holton to the farm where he has resided since and where she died January 9 of this year.

They formally celebrated the 60th anniversary of their marriage in 1955 at the farm, owned and operated by their son Henry since the deceased retired from active farming.

He was a member of the Peace Evangelical church here, and while at Strongs Prairie served on town and school boards.

Survivors include three sons and three daughters, Hans and Walter of Milwaukee, Henry, Mrs. Wade (Marie) Wellner of Hancock, Miss Ann Petersen of Lake Forest, Ill., and Agnes at home. Five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.