Born December 25, 1895 Hamburg, Germany
Entered Into Rest April 24, 1982 Manning General Hospital Manning, Iowa
Age 86 years, 3 months, and 29 days
Services Tuesday, April 27, 1982, 10:30 AM Zion Lutheran Church, Manning, Iowa
Officiating Pastor Edward F. Heinicke
Organist Dorothy Kusel
Interment Westside Cemetery Westside, Iowa
Casketbearers: Greg Peters, Scott
Nobiling, Denny Peters, Tim Kraus, Kurt Peters, Brad Nobiling, Kim Peters, Doug Peters
The family wishes to express their gratitude for your kindness evidenced in thought, word, and deed, and invites you to join them for lunch at the Westside Community Building following the committal service.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 27, at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning with Pastor Edward F. Heinicke officiating. Dorothy Kusel will be organist. Serving as pallbearers will be Greg, Denny, Doug, Kurt, and Kim Peters, Scott and Brad Nobiling and Tim Kraus. Burial, under the direction of the Ohde Funeral Home of Manning, will be in the Westside Cemetery.
Mr. Peters is survived by his wife Esther, Manning; the following children; Vernon, Wall Lake; Arlene Noack, Brownsville, Texas; Lester, Harlan; Ronald, Ames; Mrs. Donald (Betty) Nobiling, Westside; 19 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers, two sisters, his first wife Celia Bauer and a son Ray who died May 4, 1978.
Mr. Peters was born in Hamburg, Germany, December 25, 1895, a son of Wilhelm and Maria (nee Schultz) Peters. He was married to Celia Bauer September 26, 1917. She died on October 22, 1934. He was married April 19, 1938, to Esther Vetter.
He was baptized in the Evangelical Lutheran church in Hamburg on June 4, 1899, and was confirmed in the same church in March of 1910. He received his early education in Germany. In 1912, at the age of 16, he came to the United States, settling first at Arcadia. He made his home in Westside until 1940 when he moved to Manning and operated Peters Tavern and Cafe (The Corner - "Der Eck"). He retired in December of 1975. He was a member of the Westside Community Club, the American Skat Club, Zion Lutheran congregation, and the Hayes Township Schuetzen Verein.