The memorial service for Helen S. Peterson, age 82 of Lemmon will be 11:00am Thursday, January 26, at Calvary Lutheran Church in Lemmon with Pastor Ken Miller, officiating. Cremation has taken place.


Special music will be provided by Ruth Wallter.


HELEN SOPHIE KRAUSE was born August 27, 1923 on the family farm in Ada Township near Chance, SD to George and Rikka (Jacobson) Krause. She attended school near Chance and one year of high school in Bison and one year in Lemmon. She married Philip Peterson on January 10, 1949 at Lemmon. They lived twelve miles north of Lemmon on the Peterson Homestead where they farmed and ranched for many years. Mr. Peterson passed away in January of 1979. Helen continued to live on the place until she entered Five Counties Nursing Home in Lemmon in December of 2005. She passed from this life there early Wednesday morning, January 25, 2006.


Helen enjoyed cooking and sewing. She spent many hour making quilts, baby diapers, and blankets for the Lutheran World Relief to be sent over seas.


Surviving are her 2 daughters, Connie (William) Hasz, Sugar Creek, MO; Jody (David) Swift, Prairie City, SD; 1 son, Lynn Peterson, Lemmon, SD; 4 grandchildren, Torin and Trevor Hasz; Bobby Jo Harris and Samantha Swift; 2 great grandchildren, Aydin Hasz and Luke Harris; 1 sister, Georgia (Mike) Diebert, Bison, SD; and numerous nieces and nephews.


She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, 4 brothers, Leonard, Oran, Alvin, and Clarence Krause; 5 sisters, Nora Saunders, Ruby Anderson, Hazel Schelstad, Martha Kopren, and Ruth Loughlin.