The Iberia Sentinel, Unknown Date John C. Peterson, age 73, for many years a resident of Iberia, died in Independence, Kansas last Friday morning, where he was visiting his daughter, Miss Inah Peterson. He had been in failing health for some time but of no alarming degree. He passed away suddenly, falling asleep in his chair. After an impressive funeral service in Independence, the body, accompanied by his three daughters, Miss Inah Peterson, Miss Artie Peterson and Mrs. Earna Butler, and niece, Mrs. Charles Kalbe, was shipped to Crocker, where it was met Sunday morning by his wife of St. Louis and his son, Glen, of East Orange New Jersey. The body was conveyed to Iberia Sunday afternoon by Adams & Casey, local funeral directors, where funeral services were again conducted at the town cemetery by the Rev. P.J. Eckhoff, pastor of the Iberia Congregational Church, after which the remains were laid to rest by the side of his wife, who died a number of years ago. Mr. Peterson was well and favorably known in Iberia, having lived here for many years, where he operated a blacksmith shop and later was a traveling salesman for the Beck & Corbit Iron Co., of St. Louis. After the death of his first wife he married Mrs. Ella Gover, who before her first marriage was a Gott, a sister of Mrs. Gilbert Watkins of Watkins. To this union was born a son who met instant death in an airplane crash something over a year ago. Mr. Peterson is survived by his wife who lives in St. Louis, three daughters and two sons-Miss Inah Peterson of Independence, Kans., Mrs. Earna Butler and Miss Artie Peterson of Wichita, Kans.; William I. Peterson of Sapulpa, Okla., and Glen Peterson of East Orange, New Jersey, also a step-son Truman Gover of St. Louis and a brother Bob Peterson of Crocker, MO. Mr. Peterson was a member of the Big Spring I.O.O.F. Lodge at St. James, Mo., and four of his intimate friends and members of that lodge, J.F. Burge, Earnest Gunter, W.C. Jacobs and Lewis Lee, were here and conducted the last sad rites at the grave.