Arnold Peters Obituary

    Arnold Albert Peters, 89, of Lake City, passed away Friday, July 21, 2017 at Fairview Southdale Hospital.
    Arnold was born July 6, 1928 in Lake City to Margaretta (Tomforde) Peters and John Christian Peters who immigrated from Germany.
    Arnold attended Washington School and graduated from St. John’s Lutheran School and Lincoln High School. He served in the U.S. Army where he was stationed at Ft. Carson, near Colorado Springs, Colo. It was there that he met Margaret JoAnn Thomas while roller-skating. They were married in Colorado Springs on Dec. 14, 1952.
They settled in Lake City after his discharge where he continued to work with his father in the construction business. They built many barns in the Lake City area. He then took over his dad’s business building many homes amd farm buildings in Lake City and the neighboring rural area. He talked carpentry to the end. Throughout his life he lived in four different homes in the 800 block of North Oak Street.
    He was a lifelong member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, where he was baptized and confirmed. He enjoyed ushering and worked on many building projects for the church. Throughout his life he enjoyed leather-tooling, iceboating, fishing, traveling and tinkering in the family shop. He enjoyed the small children on the job sites and his own grandchildren.
    He is survived by his wife, JoAnn; two daughters and a son, Diane Burfeind, Dan (Theresa) Peters and Anita Peters; six grandchildren, Jeff, Jen, Ryan, Joe, Becca and Ben, three great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Louis (Ruth) Peters, Florida and Walter (Patricia) Peters, Wisconsin. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, Hans and John Peters, and a sister Martha Wenger.
    A funeral service will be Wednesday, July 26, at 11 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Lake City with Rev. Stephen Kurtzahn officiating. Burial will be in St. John’s Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday, July 27, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Mahn Family Funeral Home, Anderson-Peterson Chapel in Lake City. Friends may also call one hour before the service at the church on Wednesday. Online condolences may be placed at www.mahnfamilyfuneralhom.com.