OBITUARY: Irene E. Lovik Oettchen Peterson, Mitchell County, Iowa

[ Mitchell County Press-News online -- Posted Aug. 28, 2002 ]



                            Irene E. Peterson
                    
Funeral services will be held for Irene Elaine Peterson, age 77 of Riceville
at 10:30 am on Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in
Riceville. Rev. Michael Parris will officiate with burial to be in
St. Peter's Cemetery, rural Riceville. Friends may call at the Lindstrom
Funeral Home in Riceville Tuesday during the hours of 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm
and an hour before services on Wednesday at the church. Irene passed away
from cancer at the Riceville Community Rest Home on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2002.
She entered the rest home on August 19th.

Irene was born the daughter of Swen and Hilma (Strand) Lovik on September
19, 1924 in rural Ventura, IA. She was baptized and confirmed in the
Lutheran faith and was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Riceville.
She attended Ventura schools graduating in 1943 from Ventura High School.

Peterson was united in marriage to Robert Oettchen on June 2, 1951 and they
resided on the family farm south of Clear Lake. Her three children Russell,
Verlyn and Elaine were born while they lived there.

In 1971 the family moved to a farm at Riceville, IA. Her husband Robert
passed away in 1972 and she remarried on Feb. 14, 1973 to Carl Peterson.
They remained on the farm. Carl passed away in 1992.

Irene worked in various nursing homes and loved to sew and work in the
garden. She was a devoted mother and grandmother.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her two husbands and one daughter,
Elaine Oettchen in the year 2000, a sister Edythe Otis, five brothers, Roy,
Harry, Norman, Roy and Duane Lovick, five sisters-in-law and one brother-in-
law.

She is survived by two sons Russell Oettchen of Riceville and Verlyn
Oettchen of Chester, IA, two grandsons Brandon and Avery Oettchen, three
brothers Orville and his wife of Gulfport, MS, Lloyd and his wife of
Bullhead, AZ and Virgil and his wife of Fertile, IA, several nieces and
nephews.





Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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