Martin Petersen, owner and operator of the Martin Petersen Elevator and Coal Company at Manning, died at the Wyatt Memorial Hospital Thursday afternoon, October 28, 1937, of pneumonia. He had been ill for about five weeks and in the hospital for the last two weeks.

Funeral services will be held at the Ohde Funeral home at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, with the Rev. G.E. Steele officiating.

Pallbearers will be H.A. Boysen, William Sander, Gordon Sutherland, August Gebhardt, C.T. Dietz, and Ed Paesler.

WAS 70 YEARS OLD
Mr. Petersen was 70 years old.

He was a son of John and Hannah Petersen and was born September 12, 1867, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At the age of 17 he came with his sister, Caroline, to America and settled in Clinton County. Three years later he moved to a farm near Walnut.

On March 2, 1892, he was married to Sophia Boss. To this union five children were born: Mrs. George Kuhse (Alma), Mrs. Lee Strathman (Clara), and Harry Petersen, all of Manning, and William Petersen of Portland, Oregon, who arrived in Manning Thursday night. A daughter, Mabel, died at the age of six months.

TWO BROTHERS
He also leaves two brothers, Ingwer Petersen of Oakland, Iowa; and Paul Petersen of Long Beach, California; and three sisters, Mrs. Caroline Gehlsen of Davenport, who has made her home with Mr. Petersen since the death of his wife on April 21, 1932; Mrs. L.K. Nelson (Julia), Foreston, Minnesota; and Mrs. George Ford (Catherine), Long Beach, California.

In 1903 Mr. Petersen moved to a farm one mile north of Manning, where he farmed until 1920.

He then moved to Manning and since that time has been engaged in the elevator and coal business.