This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PETERSEN Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/876 Message Board Post: Norman A. Petersen HARLAN - The funeral for Norman Asmus Petersen, 88, of Manilla Manor in Manilla will be Friday at 10 a.m. at Pauley Funeral Home in Harlan with the Rev. Roy North officiating. Mr. Petersen died Jan. 7 at Manilla Manor. He was born in Irwin. He attended school at Polk No. 2 near Irwin. He served in the U.S. Army from April 24, 1941, to Jan. 8, 1945. He was a farmer. He was a member of American Legion Austin Earl Hiatt Post No. 614 of Irwin. Mr. Petersen and his wife, Lila, were married 57 years. Survivors in addition to his wife include three daughters, Connie Davis and husband, Randy, of Harlan, Donna Holster and husband, Loren, of Council Bluffs and Nancy Wright and husband, Gerald, of Jefferson; one son, Richard, and wife, Pat, of Aurelia; four sisters, Elsie Myers of Harlan, Alice Steckelberg and husband, Robert, of Harlan, Ann Caffery and husband, John, of Council Bluffs and Charlotte Aten of Council Bluffs; one brother, Orville Petersen, of Bend, Ore.; stepmother, Schwilda Elder, of Council Bluffs; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Visitation with the family will be tonight from 7 to 8:30 at the funeral home. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery in Irwin.