Obituary for Dr. Robert "Dr. Robert A. Peterson" Peterson

• Date Of Birth: August 17, 1915
• Date Of Death: November 10, 2013
• State: Minnesota

DR. ROBERT A. PETERSON

Born in Virginia, Minnesota on August 17, 1915, Robert passed away peacefully after a brief illness on Sunday, November 10, 2013, at St. Michael’s Health and Rehabilitation Center.

Robert grew up during the Great Depression and like so many others who lived during that time, knew the value of hard work. He surely had sisu.

He and his wife, Irma, bought lakeshore on Lake Vermilion next to his parents’ property when there were no roads. In the early years, before they built a cabin, Robert and Irma used to walk over a mile to their property on Lake Vermilion carrying both children and supplies on their backs.

Robert loved Lake Vermilion, where he enjoyed saunas with his family, building multiple additions on his cabin, building terraces using rock hauled from Pine Island, chopping wood, burning brush, picking blueberries, and especially planting trees.

Robert continued to plant trees at Lake Vermilion well into his 90s. He hardly ever watched TV, but he loved to listen in the evening to shortwave radio broadcasts from Australia to England interspersed with Cardinal baseball games from St. Louis.

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