{"id":16753,"date":"2024-08-30T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=16753"},"modified":"2024-09-03T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:03:50","slug":"dean-orville-peterson-west-union-iowa-august-27-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2024\/08\/dean-orville-peterson-west-union-iowa-august-27-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Orvin Peterson, West Union, Iowa, August 27, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16771\" src=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dad-fixed-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dad-fixed-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dad-fixed-250x329.jpg 250w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dad-fixed-68x90.jpg 68w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dad-fixed.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dean Orvin Peterson of West Union, passed away Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at Gundersen Hospital in LaCrosse, WI.\u00a0 He was born November 11, 1947, in Iowa, to Orville and Helen (Kuhse) Peterson.\u00a0 Dean attended school through the eighth grade.<\/p>\n<p>Dean was united in marriage to Nina Nelson. Three children were born to this union, Elizabeth, Bradley and Patrick.\u00a0 The couple later divorced. He married Eva Gordon, and she preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p>He grew up on a dairy farm &#8211; later he worked for Keifer, making life stock trailers, worked as a dairy farmer and at MPC.\u00a0 Dean enjoyed watching tractor pulls, roller skating, dancing and going to fairs.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors includes his children, Elizabeth Peterson, Decorah, Bradley (Erica) Peterson, Marion, and Patrick (Dana) Peterson, Marion; grandchildren, Finn Peterson, Katrina Peterson and Evelyn Peterson; two great-grandchildren; \u00a0nephew,\u00a0 Steve Schuety; five great nephews and two great nieces.<\/p>\n<p>Dean was preceded in death by his parents; wife Eva; his sister Ardis Schuety; brother-in-law William Schuety and nephews, Vernon Schuety and Robert Schuety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitation<\/strong>: 12:30 to 2:30 on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, at Norway Lutheran Church, rural St. Olaf.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral Service<\/strong>: 2:30 PM, September 3, 2024, at Norway Lutheran Church, rural St. Olaf with Rev. Marshall Hahn, officiating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interment<\/strong>: Norway Lutheran Cemetery, rural St. Olaf.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard-Grau Funeral Home of Elkader is assisting the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Orvin Peterson of West Union, passed away Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at Gundersen Hospital in LaCrosse, WI.\u00a0 He was born November 11, 1947, in Iowa, to Orville and Helen (Kuhse) Peterson.\u00a0 Dean attended school through the eighth grade. Dean was united in marriage to Nina Nelson. Three children were born to this union, Elizabeth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-16753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-peterson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16782,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions\/16782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}