Idaho County ID Archives Obituaries.....Peterson, Leonard Andrew January 13, 1942
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Idaho County Free Press, 01/15/1942
  Injuries Are Fatal To
Leonard Peterson
Crushed by Rolling Rock Near Riggins Monday P. M.; Funeral Thursday

  Leonard Andrew Peterson, 47, White Bird, died in General hospital at 2:30 
Wednesday morning from multiple injuries received when struck by a large 
rolling boulder at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.  Peterson and Frank Lee, state 
highway maintenance men stationed at White Bird, were engaged in removal of a 
landslide on the highway two miles south of Riggins when the accident 
occurred.  Peterson observed a new shift of earth toward the highway and 
shouted a warning to Lee, who was more nearly in direct path of the landslide, 
when a large boulder struck him.  Force of the blow knocked Peterson over a 
high embankment and rendered him unconscious.  An ambulance from Hancock 
Funeral Home was summoned to transfer the injured man to the hospital.  
Laurence Cone, state patrolman, made an investigation.
  Examination revealed Peterson’s neck was broken, skull fractured, an arm and 
a leg broken, and several ribs fractured.
  Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the 
Methodist church in White Bird.  Grangeville American Legion post, of which 
Peterson was a member, will be in charge.  John F. Rice will officiate.  
Burial will be in the White Bird cemetery.  Arrangements by Hancock Funeral 
Home.
  Leonard Andrew Peterson was born at Chat, Wisconsin, November 21, 1894.  He 
had lived in Idaho 23 years, 12 in Idaho county, the last seven of which he 
had worked for the state highway department.  His wife died in 1936.  
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Vivian Seay, Grangeville; Amber Peterson, 
Grangeville; Mrs. Dick Nelson, Spokane; six sons, John, Jack, Bud, and Wayne, 
all of White Bird; Harold of Grangeville; Milo, Nampa, Idaho; two brothers, 
Harvey and Elsworth Peterson, French Creek, Idaho; two sisters, Lettie 
Peterson, Spokane; Mrs. Eva Kidder, Plummer, Idaho, and two grandchildren.


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