Hattie
Peterson
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at All Faiths Funeral Home. Burial will be in Grand Island City Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Peterson was born Jan. 11, 1916, on a farm near Grand Island to William and Mary (Steinmeier) Niedfelt.
Survivors include nieces, Bernadine McCumber of Wood River, Gwen Detlefsen of Sun City, Ariz., Donna Hulme of Fountain Hills, Ariz., Ila Marie Ryan of Loup City, Elizabeth Gilbert and Frances Ballou, both of Grand Island and Mary Frances; nephews, William Niedfelt and Jon Niedfelt, both of Orange, Calif., Darwin Goehring of Paragould, Ark., and Jimmie Quinn.
Hattie attended District 28 school and graduated from Grand Island Senior High School. She worked at the Vallejo, Calif., hospital for several years as a practical nurse, returning to Grand Island in 1953 to care for her ailing mother. She worked at the Lutheran hospital, and was a caregiver and housekeeper for the prominent Abbot family in Grand Island for several years. She also worked for Platte Valley Construction Company. Hattie enjoyed thoroughbred horse racing and playing bingo and often attended Fonner Park races.
She was united in marriage to Charles ÒFredÓ Peterson on Feb. 14, 1970, in Grand Island. She lost her husband and all her possessions during the tornadoes of June 3, 1980. She was also preceded in death by her sisters, Ilo Smith Antonsen, Sophia Stoltenberg Stafford, Ida Eirick Wake, Linda Goehring Miller, and a little twin Minetta; and by her brothers John, William, Albert, Lawrence ÒPete,Ó Eddy, and little Emil Niedfelt; and a nephew Jerome Niedfelt.
Memorials are suggested to Heartland Lutheran High School.