John Andrew PETERSEN

Notes:

Corie Cook gave this information
John A Petersen.
Born as John A Peterson 5 Jul 1904 in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.
His parents moved from Iowa to Canada. When they returned to Iowa,
the US Government said they had to change the spelling of their
surname from Peterson to Petersen.

Married: 26 Dec 1927
Died: 27 Aug 1963. I was told he died at home (Cedar Mill,
Washington, Oregon) from a heart attack, but the Oregon Death Index
says he died in Multnomah County, so maybe he was pronounced dead at
the hospital (about 7 miles away in Multnomah County).

I was looking at some old Polk's Portland directories and saw that in
1937, John and Ethel were living on NW Wilson in Portland. He was a
chipper for ESFCO (the company later became the well-known ESCO). The
following year is when he and Ethel are shown with an address of RD 5
Box 451, which is near Cedar Mill. When they first moved near Cedar
Mill, they rented a home until the construction on their permanent
home was finished. I couldn't find a 1939 directory, but in 1940 they
are shown living in their permanent home. The home, torn down in the
90's to make way for road construction, was beautiful. The outside was
mostly Red Cedar and Redwood.

John became a bigshot at the ESCO Portland office, but always made
lots of time to go out hunting and fishing. Ethel always went
fishing, crabbing and clamming with him. John and Ethel fought a lot,
because Ethel was jealous of the secretaries John had. I don't
remember ever visiting them when they didn't end up fighting.

John married Ethel Lenore PHELPS on 26 Dec 1927 in per family Bible/Oregon, USA. Ethel (daughter of Charles "Poppa" Nelson PHELPS and Dora Eleanor LOOP) was born on 12 Sep 1910 in New Tazewell, Claiborne, Tennessee, USA; died on 25 Feb 1973 in died in home fire, probably of smoke inhalation/Garibaldi, Tillamook, Oregon, USA; was buried in 1973 in Skyline Memorial Gardens/Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joan Eleanor PETERSEN
2. Sally Marie PETERSEN was born on 28 Nov 1935 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA.