- Harriet Agnes Peterson Obituary From the Sundance Times HARRIET AGNES PETERSON Funeral services for Harriet Agnes Peterson, Sundance, will be heldat 10 a.m. Thursday at the United Methodist Church in Sundance. Mrs.Peterson, 82, died Monday at Lookout Memorial Hospital in Spearfish. Shehad been in ill health for the last 1 1/2 years and had undergone threemajor surgeries. The Rev. Robert Flier will officiate and burial will be in GreenMountain Cemetery in Weston county near Four Corners. Fidler-RobertsNortheastern Wyoming Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Memorials have been established to the Wyoming Special Olympics andthe Sundance Senior Citizens Center. She was born May 18, 1906 to George and Elizabeth Dingle Waters onher parents ranch six miles southwest of Sundance where she grew up. Sheattended rural schools here and graduated from Sundance High School in1925. She taught rural schools for three years and was married to LeonardPeterson Feb. 6, 1927 on her parents ranch. The couple moved to thePeterson ranch on the north edge of Weston county. In 1956, they moved to a Crook county ranch three miles from wherethey had lived. She moved to Sundance in 1981. Mrs. Peterson was a member of theSundance Senior Citizens Center. She is survived by: two daughter - Matilda Grubb, Sundance; andCarol Heupel, Colorado Springs, Colo.; five sons - George, Robert,Martin, Donald and Richard, all of Sundance; one sister, ElizabethWaters, Sundance; 16 grandchildren, 12 step grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbandLeonard, Oct. 26, 1967; one son, Carl (Bull) on April 28, 1984; onesister, Garnet Nilson; and an infant son. Peterson Anniversary (Page4) From the Sundance Times, February, 1967 40th ANNIVERSARY MARKED BY RANCH COUPLE FEB. 5 Sundance, Wyo. -- Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peterson were honored with anopen house at their ranch home sixteen miles south of Sundance Sundayafternoon, Feb. 5 in observance of their fortieth wedding anniversary. The Event was hosted by their two daughters, Mrs. Frances Grubb,Devils Tower; and Carol; and their six sons, Carl, George, Martin, Robert, Donald andRichard all of Sundance. A four-tiered anniversary cake centered the refreshment table andwas cut and served by Mrs. Martin Peterson. Mrs. George Peterson served coffee andMiss Carol Peterson the punch. Mrs. Grubb was in charge of the guest book signed byapproximately 70 persons. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson were married February 6, 1927, at the home ofher parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Waters. Judge Harry Isley presided at theceremony. Witnesses were Miss Elizabeth Waters, Mrs. Peterson’s sister; and Louis Peterson,Mr. Peterson’s brother. Peterson - Waters Wedding (Page4) From the Sundance Times, Feb 5, 1927 PETERSON -- WATERS Mr Leonard A. Peterson and Miss Harriet Agnes Waters were united in marriage last Sunday morning at 11:30 at the home of the bride’s parents,Mr. and Mrs. George Waters, Judge Harry P. Ilsley performing the ceremony and Mrs. George Waters playing the wedding march. Louis Peterson acted as the best man, and Miss Elizabeth Waters as bridesmaid. The bride was beautifully adorned in a dress of bois de rose crepe. The ceremony was attended by members of the two families and a few close friends.Following the ceremony a wedding dinner was served by Mrs. Waters. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Waters and is a graduate of the Sundance High School. Since graduating she has taughtschool in Crook and Weston Counties. She was born and raised in Crook County and is well known and liked by everyone within her acquaintanceship. Thegroom is a popular and prosperous farmer whose ranch is in the northern boundsof Weston County where the young newly-weds will make their future home and where they are now at home to all their friends
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