This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Peterson, Stoddard, Anderson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADI/1745 Message Board Post: Idaho State Journal, 10/17/06 GEORGETOWN — Josephine Stoddard Peterson passed away Sunday, October 15, 2006, at the Bear Lake Memorial Hospital in Montpelier, Idaho. She was born Oct. 29, 1914, in Georgetown, Idaho, the daughter of Willard R. and Mary Anderson Stoddard. She was raised and educated in Georgetown, where she married her high school sweetheart, Alvin Jay Peterson. They lived at Stringtown, where they raised their family. Josephine was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and held many positions in the Primary, Sunday school and Relief Society. She was a visiting teacher for over 40 years. Josephine was known for her good cooking, and showed her love this way; no one ever left her home hungry. She was a homemaker and loved doing yard work, and she always had beautiful flowers. She was an excellent quilter, and made many beautiful quilts. She also knitted sweaters and crocheted doilies. She was a very good seamstress, and made many of her own clothes. She helped her husband with the farming every summer, and no one handled a team of horses better than she did. She was a caregiver and fed the birds and all the stray kitties and dogs that came to her yard. She loved going to the canyons, whether it was to get wood, go fishing or pick huckleberries. Josephine loved her family and was so proud of her nine grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by here husband and two sons-in-law, George Higgins and Max Arneson. She is survived by her children, Gloria Higgins of Georgetown, Shirley Arneson of Grantsville, Utah, and Duane (Judy) Peterson of Georgetown. Funeral services will be held Thursday, Oct. 19, at 1 p.m. in the Georgetown LDS Chapel, where friends may visit with family that morning from 11 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. The interment will be in the Georgetown Cemetery.