Harold G. Peterson ’49

Pete died Aug. 6, 2005, of a blood disorder. He was 84.

He prepared for Princeton at Newell High School in South Dakota and came to Princeton after four years of Army service in the European theater. He was wounded and captured by the Germans and was a prisoner of war from November 1944 until the end of the war in Europe. His decorations included two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. At Princeton he majored in economics. He received a master's from the University of Minnesota in 1956.

After graduation Pete went to work in the bond department of the Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis, and stayed there until his retirement as a vice president in 1975. He then relocated to Florida, where he developed residential properties in the Cape Canaveral area. He had been ill for a number of years before his death.

Pete's first wife, Mae, died in 1956. He is survived by his second wife, Julia, and his daughter from his first marriage, Linda Sue Peterson. The class mourns with them on their loss of another of our true heroes.

The Class of 1949