Olive
Olive Peterson
d. April 20, 2011
Olive Peterson, age 97 of St. Peter died on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at the Grandview Good Samaritan Center in St. Peter.
Funeral service will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at Norseland Lutheran Church in Norseland with Rev. Craig Ferkenstad officiating. Burial will be at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-7 pm on Monday at St. Peter Funeral Home and will continue one hour prior to the service on Tuesday at the church. Memorials may be directed toward Norseland Lutheran Church or the Nicollet County Historical Society.
Olive May Luella was born on May 29, 1913 in New Sweden Township, Nicollet County to August B. and Inga O. (Olsen) Peterson. She is a 1930 graduate of St. Peter High School. She then continued in the Teachers Normal Training Department for one year and taught rural schools in Nicollet and Blue Earth counties from 1931 until 1939. In 1939 she began working at the Nicollet County Courthouse as Deputy Clerk of District Court and continued in that position for eight years. She was appointed the Clerk of District Court in 1948, was elected six times and served in that position until her retirement on December 31, 1973. She was a member of the Association of Clerks of District Court since 1949 and during that time served as its Secretary. Olive was a lifelong member of Norseland Lutheran Church where she was a member of the Ladies Aid. She was also a member of the Nicollet County Historical Society and a charter member of the St. Peter Arts Group. She enjoyed traveling and oil painting. She displayed paintings for ten years at the Town and Country Show on the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota.
Olive is survived by her nieces and nephews: Howard (Jane) Swenson, Owen (Evie) Swenson, Mable (Harold) Handel, Karen (John) Radway, Sandie Swenson, Mary (David) Brislance, Jean (Wayne) Andreen and Ann (James) Friederichs.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters: Alice (Maurice) Swenson and Bernice (Ogden) Olmanson; a niece, Shirley (Robert) Olsen and nephew Douglas Swenson.
Funeral service will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at Norseland Lutheran Church in Norseland with Rev. Craig Ferkenstad officiating. Burial will be at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-7 pm on Monday at St. Peter Funeral Home and will continue one hour prior to the service on Tuesday at the church. Memorials may be directed toward Norseland Lutheran Church or the Nicollet County Historical Society.
Olive May Luella was born on May 29, 1913 in New Sweden Township, Nicollet County to August B. and Inga O. (Olsen) Peterson. She is a 1930 graduate of St. Peter High School. She then continued in the Teachers Normal Training Department for one year and taught rural schools in Nicollet and Blue Earth counties from 1931 until 1939. In 1939 she began working at the Nicollet County Courthouse as Deputy Clerk of District Court and continued in that position for eight years. She was appointed the Clerk of District Court in 1948, was elected six times and served in that position until her retirement on December 31, 1973. She was a member of the Association of Clerks of District Court since 1949 and during that time served as its Secretary. Olive was a lifelong member of Norseland Lutheran Church where she was a member of the Ladies Aid. She was also a member of the Nicollet County Historical Society and a charter member of the St. Peter Arts Group. She enjoyed traveling and oil painting. She displayed paintings for ten years at the Town and Country Show on the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota.
Olive is survived by her nieces and nephews: Howard (Jane) Swenson, Owen (Evie) Swenson, Mable (Harold) Handel, Karen (John) Radway, Sandie Swenson, Mary (David) Brislance, Jean (Wayne) Andreen and Ann (James) Friederichs.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters: Alice (Maurice) Swenson and Bernice (Ogden) Olmanson; a niece, Shirley (Robert) Olsen and nephew Douglas Swenson.
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