DICK PETERSON

Mr. and [Mrs.] Marvin Heusman drove to Cheyenne, Wyoming Thursday of last week to attend the funeral of their friend, Dick Peterson. Services. were held at 11 o’clock Friday morning in Schroeder Mortuary in Cheyenne and he was buried in the cemetery at Cheyenne. The Heusmans returned home Saturday,

Richard Leonard Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Peterson, was born July 9, 1924 at Sterling, Nebr., and was reared in this community. He attended Latrobe school near his home, then when the family. moved to Nebraska City he attended high school there, graduating in 1943.

He was an ensign in the Navy Air Force during World War II. He was a member of the American Legion, the Elks and the Eagles.

In 1947 he married Doris Roberts Esser of Nebraska City. The family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming several years ago, and Mr. Peterson was in the contracting business there.

Neel Recently he went through the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Wednesday morning, Jan, 24, 1962, at 1:45, he died after a brief illness with the flu and complications.

Surviving are his wife and three children, Rocki, Vicki and Richard Jr.

Also surviving are his parents of Nebraska City; brother, Bud, of Longmont, Colo., and half, brother, George Custer, Albuquerque, New Mexico; sister, Mrs. Renos Anderson, Weeping Water; half sisters, Mrs. John Brinkman, Sterling, Mrs. Helen. Mulligan, Columbus, and Mrs. Paul Chaney, Falls City.

The family experienced further grief when a couple of days after Mr. Peterson's funeral, his sister-in-law, Mrs. Bud Peterson, died from a heart attack.

Johnson County Courier Sterling, Nebraska • Thu, Feb 1, 1962

Richard Leonard Peterson (1924)