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Show Former Resident Dies of Heart Attack Saturday Willis Louis Peterson Sr., 53, a businessman of Holladay, died Saturday Sat-urday morning of a heart attack while on a fishing trip to Island Park, Idaho. He was owner of the W. L. Peterson Co., Holladay Sports, vice president of Falcon Uranium Corp., and manager of Louis-Vance Investment Co. He was born in Pleasant Grove, April 2, 1902, a son of Louis Niels and Ida Swenson Peterson. He attended at-tended Pleasant Grove schools and the Brigham Young University. From 1926 to 1931 he was employed em-ployed at the Utah Gas and Coke Co., in Salt Lake City. He moved to Omaha, Neb., and in 1942 returned re-turned to Utah, where he worked for Geneva Steel Co., as an expediter. ex-pediter. He married Ruth Jeppson of Pleasant Grove in the Salt Lake City Temple,, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in 1924. A member of the Holladay Fourth Ward, he was active in the Holladay Lions Club and had been commodore of the Salt Lake Power Pow-er Boat Club. Surviving are his widow; four sons, Willis L. Jr., Gordon E., C. Robert, and D. Gary Peterson, Salt Lake City; three brothers, J. Reed Peterson, Pleasant Grove; Virgil V., and Wesley N. Peterson, Peter-son, Salt Lake City, and seven grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at noon in Holladay Fourth Ward by Bishop Allen Terry. Ter-ry. Interment was made in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, where Virgil Peterson, a brother, offered the dedicatorial prayer. |