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Larry Allen Peterson, 82, of Urbandale passed away peacefully Monday, August 29, 2022 at Mercy One Hospice in Johnston, Iowa.
Larry was born on June 28, 1940 at the Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, to 27-year-old Gustav Stanley Peterson and 26-year-old Bernice Teresa (Dahl). The FW Woolworth store has since moved to Yankton, South Dakota and Evereth, Minnesota. He then returned to Des Moines in 1944 after his father was drafted into the Navy and his younger brother Robert (Bob) was born.
Larry’s love of trains and books began at an early age and continued throughout his life. His love for movies began when his family moved to Boone, Iowa in his 1946. His love of classical music began in grade school with Peter and the Wolf. He began walking through cemeteries over railroad tracks near his home and has visited many cemeteries around the world.
Larry graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1958 and truly enjoyed learning. He joined the U.S. Army Reserve at Fort Des Moines in his January 1958 and from July 1958 he was on active duty until January 1959. He received basic training at Fort, Missouri He Leonard He Wood until September 1958, then Fort, New Jersey He attended Signal Corps Training School in Monmouth. For schooling as a combat photographer. After returning to Des Moines, he was assigned to the 103rd Signal Corps at Fort Des Moines as an active and non-active reservist until January 1966.
Larry’s father kept saying that computers would one day be a great future!! I enrolled. He graduated second in his class and began working as a tab his operator at State Auto Insurance. While there, he took evening classes at Drake University majoring in business, accounting and insurance.
Larry’s father kept saying that computers would one day be a great future!! I enrolled. He graduated second in his class and began working as a tab his operator at State Auto Insurance. While there, he took evening classes at Drake University majoring in business, accounting and insurance.
In 1962 Larry began working as an IBM 1401 Computer Operator in the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Regional Accounting office. In 1963, his small family (his wife Rae Ann, daughter his Christine) moved to Minneapolis and he worked at the American Hoist and Derrick factory in St. Paul as his system analyst/programmer. . From 1964 to his 1965, he worked part-time as a computer operator for North Central Airlines at the Minneapolis airport. He was then eligible to purchase $3.00 airline tickets anywhere in the system. Their first flight was on the DC-3 to International Falls, Minnesota and Fort Francis, Ontario. Later, Larry wanted to fix computers, so he began taking evening classes in electronics and electrical engineering at the Dunwoody Institute of Technology, Minneapolis Control. took the course of He was then offered a position as an engineer in Field Services for Control Data in Los Angeles, and moved his growing family (daughter Kathleen was born in 1964) to California in December 1967. Did. He then transferred to a customer engineer at the Vandenberg Air Force Missile Base near Lompoc, California. He had to maintain and repair a building-sized computer system used by the Air Force and the US space program. He was present at many of the missile launches at the base and served during several of the astronauts’ space flights. (Son David was born in Santa Maria in 1968).
The family returned to Des Moines in 1969, and Larry worked for Dial Financial Corporation as a systems maintenance programmer, helping set up the first floor of one of the nation’s first major online data communications networks.
Larry married Ray Ann (Harrington) on January 28, 1961. Christine Ann was born on September 3, 1962 in Des Moines on Labor Day. Kathleen Ann she was born on July 27, 1964 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and David Allen she was born on December 5, 1968 in Santa Maria, California. I could smell Santa Maria style BBQ from nearby restaurants. It didn’t get much better than that!!Chris and Kathy were enjoying their new little brother.Larry loved her family more than anything! He loved to travel and he always loved to travel again. He took his family on vacation every summer to all 48 states, Mexico and Canada.
He has visited all 50 states and most provinces of Canada. Amtrak train journeys for his extensive Swedish genealogy research. Travel to Iceland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, England, Wales, Scotland, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Yucaton, Mexico, Jamaica.
In 1992, Larry became a certified Swedish genealogist by the Genealogical Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has helped people all over the world explore their genealogy.
Larry started his long-distance running career at the age of 40. He has run his 10, 15 and 20 km races over his 100th in Iowa, Minnesota, Utah, Hawaii and Florida. He ran his three marathons (26.2 miles), one in Iowa City and two in his relay at Drake in Des Moines. What a great grind!! he said.
Larry bought a new Pansonic bike in 1985 and rode thousands of miles through various national parks and many states. He rode RAGBRAI five times from 1985 to 1990. He said I really enjoyed the bike and took lots of pictures along the way. I never realized how beautiful Iowa is.
Larry will be missed by his daughter Christine, son David, grandchildren Jasmine, Shaina, Samuel, Alex and Matthew, and great-grandson Cody. He was reunited in heaven with his daughter Kathleen, his brother Bob, his parents, and all his friends and family who died before him.
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Published by Caldwell Parrish Funeral Home & Crematory on August 30, 2022.