Notes for Elizabeth Peterson: June 4, 2000, Pat Lubben and I met with Betty & Stan Mattson at their home in Minneapolis, MN.
She told us that her father left when she and her sisters were small. He was a horticultrualist and was known for his work in making the carnation what it is today. He competed in "Sweepstakes" in New York and all over and won many times. Their parents were separated and he took up with another woman who was a beautician. He redid a large home of a politician in Streator, IL, and made it into a beauty parlor for this woman.
She had not seen her father for many years. One day while in a Streator Hospital she came face to face with him sitting in a bed. He told her he did not have long to live. Told her he wanted for her to take the "sweepstakes" and bonds he had at the house in Steator. He insisted she was to take the money and go on a trip to Europe to visit their relatives. She and Stan took that trip in the fifties and she sent him a card to let him know that they had made the trip but it was returned "deceased".
She indicated that he sent the girls expensive gifts--dolls, etc. which they were not interested in. But they spent little time together.
More About Elizabeth Peterson: Burial: Oct 24, 2005, Lakewood Cemetery, 3600 Hennipin Ave., Minneapolis, MN.834 Census 1: 1930, 22, , IL, Sweden, Sweden, Clerk at Railroad. Census 2: 1910, New Lennox, Dist 189, IL. Census 3: 1920, New Lennox, IL.
Stan & Betty
More About Elizabeth Peterson and Stanley A. Mattson: Marriage: Mar 14, 1947, Las Vegas, NV.
Elizabeth Peterson (b. Sep 27, 1906, d. Oct 21, 2005)
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