Bio: Peterson, Anna (80th Birthday – 27 Mar 1970)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Peterson, Thompson, Geary

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 02 Apr 1970

Approximatel one hundred people stopped in at the Ralph Peterson home on Friday afternoon, March 27, 1970 to greet Mrs. Edwin Peterson on the occasion of her 80th birthday.

The guests from Osseo, Strum, Sparta, Montello, Stevens Point, Appleton, Unity, Whitehall and Abbotsford, as well as from the immediate area, were served coffee by her two daughters-in-law, Mrs. Art Peterson and Mrs. Ralph Peterson, who were ably assisted by Mrs. Willard Geary of Curtiss.

Mrs. Peterson, born Anna Thompson, has been a lifelong resident of this community (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.). She received her education in the little country school out here, and was graduated from the Colby High School, after which she took teachers' training in Stevens Point, at what was then the State Normal. She taught school for several years before marrying Edwin M. Peterson on June 19, 1920. Mr. Peterson died December 11, 1951.

Present at this "Four Score Birthday Party" were her two sons, Arthur of Madison, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, and Ralph, who is on the home farm. Also in attendance were her two granddaughters and all but one of her seven grandsons.