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Mrs. Eva Peters• i‘ i • .marks 100th yearA . •A five generation gathering took place this week when Mrs. Eva Wakeman Pardee Peters celebrated her 100th birthday at Cummings nursing home, Sioux City, where she is a resident.The five generations are Mrs. Peters, her son, Harold of Sioux Falls, SD., her granddaughter, Mrs. June E. Alguire ofChamberlain, S. D., h e rgreat-granddaughter, Mrs. Caren McArthur of Sioux Falls and great-great-granddaughter, Bobbette McArthur.Mrs. Peters was born Dec. 23,1870 to Rev. and Mrs. Ira Pardee of Great Bend, Pa. She came west with her family at the age of 15 and her father became pastor of the First Methodist Evangelical church of Le Mars, and later the First church at Mitchell,SD. :y In 1885 the family moved to Sioux City and Rev. Pardee was named pastor of First church at Sioux City. He helped in the development of Morningside college.•i Mrs. Peters married her husband Oct. hi, 1893 in Courtland, N. Y., where the family had moved. The couple returned to Sioux City and resided at 2117 Pierce St., and summered at McCook Lake..•-They later m5ved to the Fallis* * ■apartments. Mr. Peters died in 1950 and Mrs. Peters remained at the apartment lintil April of this year when she moved to the nursing home.tre in service
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Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Le Mars, Iowa, US
Mon, Dec 28, 1970
Page 10
Full Page
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