CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF RICHARD PEDERSEN

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Last Rites for Soldier Here Saturday

Funeral services will be held at Trinity Lutheran church here Saturday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock for Pfc. Richard Pedersen, 21-year old son of 
Mr. and Mrs. Niels Pedersen of Hartington, who was killed in action in 
Korea July 14 [1953].

Rev. O.L. Levorson will officiate at the last rites and burial will be 
in the Hartington city cemetery.

Pfc. Pedersen's body arrived in the states this past week and was to 
arrive in Yankton today (Thursday).  Smith Funeral Home will have 
charge of the arrangements.

Young Pedersen, who had been in the army since November 6, 1952 and who 
had been overseas since last April, was killed shortly before the 
military armistice was signed in Korea.  He was born on a farm near 
Hartington May 10, 1932 and attended school here.

Besides his parents, he is survived by four brothers, Gunmar of Beatrice;
and Lloyd, Gerald and Marvin of Hartington, and one sister, Doris, of 
Hartington.


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1953 - CEDAR COUNTY NEWS