OBITUARY: Viola (Hultman) McPhail Alice Peterson, 1904-2003, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[ Posted May 28, 2003; Mitchell County Press-News online - www.mcpress.com ]


                      Viola McPhail Alice Peterson

Funeral services were held Tuesday at Garden View Chapel for Viola McPhail
Alice Peterson, age 98, of Waterloo. Burial was in Garden of Memories
Cemetery. She died Thursday, May 22, at Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center of natural causes.

Viola was born October 5, 1904 in Little Cedar, the daughter of August,
Senior and Carrie Seversen Hultman. She married Lynn McPhail on January
10, 1924 in Charles City. After Lynn's death she married Irving J. Peterson
August 5, 1941 in Red Wing, MN. 

She was employed in the Trim Department at the Rath Packing Company for
36 years, retiring in 1966.

Viola graduated from Little Cedar School in 1921, Cedar Valley Seminary
in Osage in 1922 and was a member of the Little Cedar United Methodist
Church.

Preceding her in death were her first husband Lynn and her husband
Irving in 1997 her parents, one son Norman, a granddaughter Mary Lea
Leonard, a great-great-grandson in infancy, five brothers Albert, Martin,
Arnold, August, Junior and Galen Hultman, four sisters, twin sister Violet
Decker, Cordelia Hultman, Bessie Johnson and Helen Culbertson.

She is survived by one son Russell McPhail and his wife Zona of Waterloo,
four grandsons David McPhail of Madison, TN, Scott McPhail of Denver, CO,
Brian McPhail of Osage and Jay McPhail of Hanley Falls, MN, two
granddaughters Jeanne Bruggeman of Northwood and Margie Musch of
Washburn, 14 great-grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren.




Copyright (c) 2003 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject(s) of this document)

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