Lewis & Clark Co. Birth Index has his middle name as Palen.
Obituary from The Independent Record:
Otto V. Peterson, a former Missoula resident, passed away in Tacoma on Dec. 17, 2001, one day shy of his 81st birthday.
Otto had been a printer at the Missoulian at various times and retired as a printer at the University of Montana Scholars Press in 1979.
Otto was born in Helena on Dec. 18, 1920, to Otto and Alphild Peterson from Sweden. He attended public schools in Helena and also attended high school classes in the railroad cars after the 1935 earthquake destroyed the school.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother and sisters.
Otto was in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1940 to 1952, and was on the Coast Guard Cutter Taney at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The ship is today a national historic site in Baltimore and the last remaining floating fighting ship from Pearl Harbor. Otto was credited with firing the first shot from the Taney at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Coast Guard official government Web site features Otto on its "Coast Guard in WW-2."
Otto married Helen A. Kulstad of Missoula in 1943. Her parents, Anna and Peter, founded the Missoula Lumber Co. Helen died in 1996.
For a time in the 1950s, he owned the oldest newspaper in Montana, the "Northwest Tribune" (Montana Press No. 1) in Stevensville where "hot lead" type was still set by hand and printed one page at a time, folded by hand and often "hand-delivered." He was also a printer in Hamilton, Butte and Helena. Otto retired as a printer from the University of Montana in Missoula in 1979, and later moved to Imperial, Calif.
Otto was an active member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Coast Guard Combat Veterans, the Bering Sea Patrol Alaska Veterans and the VFW. He was an avid golfer, bowler and fisherman. He loved Montana.
He is survived by his son Joe V. Peterson of Tacoma, Wash.; daughter Ann Munsterman of Everett, Wash.; nephews Brian Ahern of Helena, David Mattice of Nashville, Tenn., and William Mattice of Garrison; nieces Elizabeth Raymond of Helena and Robin Thompson of Missoula; five grandchildren; and one great-grandson. Memorial services with military honors will be held in Tacoma, Wash., and Helena in the summer of 2002. Memorials in Otto's name can be made to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney Museum, Baltimore Maritime Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Obituary from The Independent Record:
Otto V. Peterson, a former Missoula resident, passed away in Tacoma on Dec. 17, 2001, one day shy of his 81st birthday.
Otto had been a printer at the Missoulian at various times and retired as a printer at the University of Montana Scholars Press in 1979.
Otto was born in Helena on Dec. 18, 1920, to Otto and Alphild Peterson from Sweden. He attended public schools in Helena and also attended high school classes in the railroad cars after the 1935 earthquake destroyed the school.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother and sisters.
Otto was in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1940 to 1952, and was on the Coast Guard Cutter Taney at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The ship is today a national historic site in Baltimore and the last remaining floating fighting ship from Pearl Harbor. Otto was credited with firing the first shot from the Taney at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Coast Guard official government Web site features Otto on its "Coast Guard in WW-2."
Otto married Helen A. Kulstad of Missoula in 1943. Her parents, Anna and Peter, founded the Missoula Lumber Co. Helen died in 1996.
For a time in the 1950s, he owned the oldest newspaper in Montana, the "Northwest Tribune" (Montana Press No. 1) in Stevensville where "hot lead" type was still set by hand and printed one page at a time, folded by hand and often "hand-delivered." He was also a printer in Hamilton, Butte and Helena. Otto retired as a printer from the University of Montana in Missoula in 1979, and later moved to Imperial, Calif.
Otto was an active member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Coast Guard Combat Veterans, the Bering Sea Patrol Alaska Veterans and the VFW. He was an avid golfer, bowler and fisherman. He loved Montana.
He is survived by his son Joe V. Peterson of Tacoma, Wash.; daughter Ann Munsterman of Everett, Wash.; nephews Brian Ahern of Helena, David Mattice of Nashville, Tenn., and William Mattice of Garrison; nieces Elizabeth Raymond of Helena and Robin Thompson of Missoula; five grandchildren; and one great-grandson. Memorial services with military honors will be held in Tacoma, Wash., and Helena in the summer of 2002. Memorials in Otto's name can be made to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney Museum, Baltimore Maritime Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Lewis & Clark Co. Birth Index has his middle name as Palen.
Obituary from The Independent Record:
Otto V. Peterson, a former Missoula resident, passed away in Tacoma on Dec. 17, 2001, one day shy of his 81st birthday.
Otto had been a printer at the Missoulian at various times and retired as a printer at the University of Montana Scholars Press in 1979.
Otto was born in Helena on Dec. 18, 1920, to Otto and Alphild Peterson from Sweden. He attended public schools in Helena and also attended high school classes in the railroad cars after the 1935 earthquake destroyed the school.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother and sisters.
Otto was in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1940 to 1952, and was on the Coast Guard Cutter Taney at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The ship is today a national historic site in Baltimore and the last remaining floating fighting ship from Pearl Harbor. Otto was credited with firing the first shot from the Taney at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Coast Guard official government Web site features Otto on its "Coast Guard in WW-2."
Otto married Helen A. Kulstad of Missoula in 1943. Her parents, Anna and Peter, founded the Missoula Lumber Co. Helen died in 1996.
For a time in the 1950s, he owned the oldest newspaper in Montana, the "Northwest Tribune" (Montana Press No. 1) in Stevensville where "hot lead" type was still set by hand and printed one page at a time, folded by hand and often "hand-delivered." He was also a printer in Hamilton, Butte and Helena. Otto retired as a printer from the University of Montana in Missoula in 1979, and later moved to Imperial, Calif.
Otto was an active member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Coast Guard Combat Veterans, the Bering Sea Patrol Alaska Veterans and the VFW. He was an avid golfer, bowler and fisherman. He loved Montana.
He is survived by his son Joe V. Peterson of Tacoma, Wash.; daughter Ann Munsterman of Everett, Wash.; nephews Brian Ahern of Helena, David Mattice of Nashville, Tenn., and William Mattice of Garrison; nieces Elizabeth Raymond of Helena and Robin Thompson of Missoula; five grandchildren; and one great-grandson. Memorial services with military honors will be held in Tacoma, Wash., and Helena in the summer of 2002. Memorials in Otto's name can be made to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney Museum, Baltimore Maritime Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Obituary from The Independent Record:
Otto V. Peterson, a former Missoula resident, passed away in Tacoma on Dec. 17, 2001, one day shy of his 81st birthday.
Otto had been a printer at the Missoulian at various times and retired as a printer at the University of Montana Scholars Press in 1979.
Otto was born in Helena on Dec. 18, 1920, to Otto and Alphild Peterson from Sweden. He attended public schools in Helena and also attended high school classes in the railroad cars after the 1935 earthquake destroyed the school.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother and sisters.
Otto was in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1940 to 1952, and was on the Coast Guard Cutter Taney at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The ship is today a national historic site in Baltimore and the last remaining floating fighting ship from Pearl Harbor. Otto was credited with firing the first shot from the Taney at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Coast Guard official government Web site features Otto on its "Coast Guard in WW-2."
Otto married Helen A. Kulstad of Missoula in 1943. Her parents, Anna and Peter, founded the Missoula Lumber Co. Helen died in 1996.
For a time in the 1950s, he owned the oldest newspaper in Montana, the "Northwest Tribune" (Montana Press No. 1) in Stevensville where "hot lead" type was still set by hand and printed one page at a time, folded by hand and often "hand-delivered." He was also a printer in Hamilton, Butte and Helena. Otto retired as a printer from the University of Montana in Missoula in 1979, and later moved to Imperial, Calif.
Otto was an active member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Coast Guard Combat Veterans, the Bering Sea Patrol Alaska Veterans and the VFW. He was an avid golfer, bowler and fisherman. He loved Montana.
He is survived by his son Joe V. Peterson of Tacoma, Wash.; daughter Ann Munsterman of Everett, Wash.; nephews Brian Ahern of Helena, David Mattice of Nashville, Tenn., and William Mattice of Garrison; nieces Elizabeth Raymond of Helena and Robin Thompson of Missoula; five grandchildren; and one great-grandson. Memorial services with military honors will be held in Tacoma, Wash., and Helena in the summer of 2002. Memorials in Otto's name can be made to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney Museum, Baltimore Maritime Museum, Baltimore, MD.
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