Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Peterson, John M.  November 9, 1944
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Sentinel-Std. Thursday, Nov. 9, 1944

John M. Peterson, 72, who had operated an oil station in South Ionia for the 
past 12 years, died Thursday morning at 5:30 o'clock in the Ionia County 
Memorial hospital where he was taken Saturday afternoon after a heart attack. 
He had been in poor health for a year.

Mr. Peterson was born July 22, 1872, in Denmark, and came to the United States 
in 1890, settling in Illinois, where he was married March 6, 1902, to Amelia 
Peterson of Dewitt, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson moved to Ionia in 1906, and had 
lived here since.

They owned a farm on the State road for many years before moving to South Ionia 
to open an oil station. Mr. Peterson was manager of the farm bureau in Ionia at 
one time. He was a member of the Danish Brotherhood for 50 years and a member 
of the Modern Woodmen of America for 40 years.

He is survived by his wife, Amelia; four children, Stanley Peterson of Ionia 
township, Mrs. Allen Haskin of Ronald, Mrs. Russell Wood of the State road and 
Carmen Peterson of R(?) #2 Belding; and six grandchildren. 

The body will be taken Friday to the Allen Haskin home in Ronald to repose 
until Sunday, when services will be held Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock at 
the Boynton funeral home. 

Additional Comments:
Age: 72
Highland Park cemetery #C-62



son of Mathias Hansen Peterson & Anna Magalene (Jenson)

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