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AUSTIN -- The funeral for Carlos C. Pedersen was Sunday at First Ncted Methodist Church in Austin with the Rev. Kristin Wee officiating. Burial was in Grandview Cemetery in Austin.
Mr. Pedersen, 87, of Route 2, Austin, a retired longtime Hormel Foods Corp. employee, died Wednesday (Feb. 26, 1997) at his home.
Born Sept. 5, 1909, in West Branch, Iowa, he moved to rural Rose Creek as a child and graduated valedictorian of the Rose Creek High School class of 1924 when he was 15. He then worked the harvests in the Dakotas before beginning his employment at Hormel where he worked for 46 years. He was active in Local 9 as a grievance steward and delegate to a number of national meetings. He retired in 1972. Mr. Pedersen served a tour of duty with Comapny H of the National Guard in Austin. An avid light-plane pilot, he began lessons in the 1930s at Wold Chamberlain airport in Minneapolis, earned his license after resuming his training at age 65 and continued to fly until being grounded due to a physical condition when he was 74. In his late 50s he took up water skiing, became accomplished with the slalom and saucer, and continued to ski into his 70s. He also did rural paper delivery, operated a vending machine business, was in monument sales, anokd as a travel guide he and his wife organized and accompanied groups to 50 countries. He was a member of St. Olaf Lutheran Church.
Survivors include his wife, Evelia; three sons, Donald L. LaValley and Robert Pederson, both of Austin, and Kenneth Pedersen of Stillwater, Minn.; a daughter, Lorelei (Mrs. Rick) Bliss of Austin; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a greatq-great-granddaughter; and two sisters, Geneva Johnson of Austin and Dale Baldus of Lakeville, Minn. He was preceded in death by his first wife, the former Alvina Hanson LaValley, three sisters, a brother and a grandson.
Clasen-Jordan Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
AUSTIN -- The funeral for Carlos C. Pedersen was Sunday at First Ncted Methodist Church in Austin with the Rev. Kristin Wee officiating. Burial was in Grandview Cemetery in Austin.
Mr. Pedersen, 87, of Route 2, Austin, a retired longtime Hormel Foods Corp. employee, died Wednesday (Feb. 26, 1997) at his home.
Born Sept. 5, 1909, in West Branch, Iowa, he moved to rural Rose Creek as a child and graduated valedictorian of the Rose Creek High School class of 1924 when he was 15. He then worked the harvests in the Dakotas before beginning his employment at Hormel where he worked for 46 years. He was active in Local 9 as a grievance steward and delegate to a number of national meetings. He retired in 1972. Mr. Pedersen served a tour of duty with Comapny H of the National Guard in Austin. An avid light-plane pilot, he began lessons in the 1930s at Wold Chamberlain airport in Minneapolis, earned his license after resuming his training at age 65 and continued to fly until being grounded due to a physical condition when he was 74. In his late 50s he took up water skiing, became accomplished with the slalom and saucer, and continued to ski into his 70s. He also did rural paper delivery, operated a vending machine business, was in monument sales, anokd as a travel guide he and his wife organized and accompanied groups to 50 countries. He was a member of St. Olaf Lutheran Church.
Survivors include his wife, Evelia; three sons, Donald L. LaValley and Robert Pederson, both of Austin, and Kenneth Pedersen of Stillwater, Minn.; a daughter, Lorelei (Mrs. Rick) Bliss of Austin; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a greatq-great-granddaughter; and two sisters, Geneva Johnson of Austin and Dale Baldus of Lakeville, Minn. He was preceded in death by his first wife, the former Alvina Hanson LaValley, three sisters, a brother and a grandson.
Clasen-Jordan Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
OBITUARY-
AUSTIN -- The funeral for Carlos C. Pedersen was Sunday at First Ncted Methodist Church in Austin with the Rev. Kristin Wee officiating. Burial was in Grandview Cemetery in Austin.
Mr. Pedersen, 87, of Route 2, Austin, a retired longtime Hormel Foods Corp. employee, died Wednesday (Feb. 26, 1997) at his home.
Born Sept. 5, 1909, in West Branch, Iowa, he moved to rural Rose Creek as a child and graduated valedictorian of the Rose Creek High School class of 1924 when he was 15. He then worked the harvests in the Dakotas before beginning his employment at Hormel where he worked for 46 years. He was active in Local 9 as a grievance steward and delegate to a number of national meetings. He retired in 1972. Mr. Pedersen served a tour of duty with Comapny H of the National Guard in Austin. An avid light-plane pilot, he began lessons in the 1930s at Wold Chamberlain airport in Minneapolis, earned his license after resuming his training at age 65 and continued to fly until being grounded due to a physical condition when he was 74. In his late 50s he took up water skiing, became accomplished with the slalom and saucer, and continued to ski into his 70s. He also did rural paper delivery, operated a vending machine business, was in monument sales, anokd as a travel guide he and his wife organized and accompanied groups to 50 countries. He was a member of St. Olaf Lutheran Church.
Survivors include his wife, Evelia; three sons, Donald L. LaValley and Robert Pederson, both of Austin, and Kenneth Pedersen of Stillwater, Minn.; a daughter, Lorelei (Mrs. Rick) Bliss of Austin; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a greatq-great-granddaughter; and two sisters, Geneva Johnson of Austin and Dale Baldus of Lakeville, Minn. He was preceded in death by his first wife, the former Alvina Hanson LaValley, three sisters, a brother and a grandson.
Clasen-Jordan Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
AUSTIN -- The funeral for Carlos C. Pedersen was Sunday at First Ncted Methodist Church in Austin with the Rev. Kristin Wee officiating. Burial was in Grandview Cemetery in Austin.
Mr. Pedersen, 87, of Route 2, Austin, a retired longtime Hormel Foods Corp. employee, died Wednesday (Feb. 26, 1997) at his home.
Born Sept. 5, 1909, in West Branch, Iowa, he moved to rural Rose Creek as a child and graduated valedictorian of the Rose Creek High School class of 1924 when he was 15. He then worked the harvests in the Dakotas before beginning his employment at Hormel where he worked for 46 years. He was active in Local 9 as a grievance steward and delegate to a number of national meetings. He retired in 1972. Mr. Pedersen served a tour of duty with Comapny H of the National Guard in Austin. An avid light-plane pilot, he began lessons in the 1930s at Wold Chamberlain airport in Minneapolis, earned his license after resuming his training at age 65 and continued to fly until being grounded due to a physical condition when he was 74. In his late 50s he took up water skiing, became accomplished with the slalom and saucer, and continued to ski into his 70s. He also did rural paper delivery, operated a vending machine business, was in monument sales, anokd as a travel guide he and his wife organized and accompanied groups to 50 countries. He was a member of St. Olaf Lutheran Church.
Survivors include his wife, Evelia; three sons, Donald L. LaValley and Robert Pederson, both of Austin, and Kenneth Pedersen of Stillwater, Minn.; a daughter, Lorelei (Mrs. Rick) Bliss of Austin; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a greatq-great-granddaughter; and two sisters, Geneva Johnson of Austin and Dale Baldus of Lakeville, Minn. He was preceded in death by his first wife, the former Alvina Hanson LaValley, three sisters, a brother and a grandson.
Clasen-Jordan Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
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