Lois Petersen, 33, Hit By Many Afflictions, Dies Sunday Night Here

Miss Lois Petersen, 33, a Blairite who bravely met a staggering series of physical afflictions, lost her fight for life Sunday night. She died at Memorial Community Hospital.

Miss Petersen, stricken successively by infantile paralysis, osteomyelitis and then cancer, stuck family to her job as a stenographer at the Washington County assistance office in the Courthouse until it was impossible for her to continue, even with crutches.

Cancer was the immediate cause of her death—the same disease caused the death in 1955 of her mothers, Mrs. Albert W. Petersen.

The funeral was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Lutheran Church, the Rev. H.C. Jorgensen officiating. Burial, with arrangements by the Bendorf Funeral Home, was in Blair Cemetery.*

Serving as pallbearers were Gifford Dixon, Jr., Wendell Homes, Dennis Altekruse, Raymond Koerber, Emory Hunt, Jr., and Claude Clements.

Miss Petersen was born Nov. 1, 1923, near Herman, but spent most of her life in Blair.

Surviving Miss Petersen are two brothers, Lloyd Petersen of Blair and Harland Petersen of Herman; and four sisters, Mrs. Roy Plummer (Elaine) of Tekamah, Mrs. Chester Larsen (Betty) of Herman, Mrs. Freddie Vaca (Ruth) Omaha, and Mrs. Harold Frahm (Mary Alice) of Tekamah. There are 13 nephews and nieces; also several aunts.

* Memorial card and Rose Hill Cemetery records show she is buried in Rose Hill

IN MEMORY OF LOIS PETERSEN

November 1, 1923 Herman, Nebraska February 4, 1957 Blair, Nebraska

SERVICES AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH

Wednesday, February 6, 1957 – 2:00 P.M.

OFFICIATING Rev. Harold C. Jorgensen MUSIC BY Paul Neve, Organist; Camilla Watt, Soloist

The Old Rugged Cross; Sometime We’ll Understand

USHERS Leroy Larsen Gene Megrue John Forsberg

PALLBEARERS Gifford Dixon, Jr.; Dennis Alterkruse; Wendell Homes; Claude Clements Raymond Koerber; Emory Hunt

CONCLUDING SERVICE Rose Hill Cemetery

Thank you card from newspaper

We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their sympathy and kindness during the long illness and death of our sister, Lois Petersen. We wish especially to thank Rev. Jorgensen for his comforting words. Also the Rebekah Lodge, the Lutheran Daughters, the Pinochle Club girls, the Hospital staff and all who sent cards, flowers and memorials. The Family of Lois Petersen.