Peterson family

Born in Hinsdale, Montana, and raised in Alexandria, Minnesota, Everett Vinson Peterson (1915-1944) graduated from high school in 1933 and joined the Minnesota National Guard.

He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1939 with a degree in Business Administration. In 1940, Peterson volunteered for active duty and was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. Two years later he married Austin native Frances "Bunnie" Rice (1922-1946) who had lived in Dallas for most of her life before attending college at the Texas School of Mines in El Paso and the University of Texas at Austin. In January 1944, Peterson was sent overseas with the Battery B 197th Antiaircraft Battalion and died on D-Day, June 6, 1944, on Omaha Beach. His body was repatriated from St. Laurent, France, in Sept. 1947 and buried at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.

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