Kate
Peterson, 54
Acton,
Mass. - Kate A. Peterson, 54, died Sunday, July
29, 2001 at her home in Acton, Mass.
Funeral
services were held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, August 2,
at the Congregational Church in Acton. Interment
was in Woodlawn Cemetery in Acton with
MacRae-Tunnicliffe Funeral Home of Concord, Mass.
in charge of the arrangements.
Kate
Angus was born in Orange, N.J. and grew up in
Union, N.J. In 1969, she graduated from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison with a bachelor
of arts degree in mathematics.
In
1972, she began her career as a systems engineer at
MITRE where she continued to work for 27 years.
During that time, she focused on the development of
various programs for the Air Force, including the
Early Warning Missile Defense System, Crisis
Response Systems and other information processing
systems.
Kate
moved to Acton, Mass. in 1976 and was the wife of
former Thief River Falls resident Paul
Peterson.
In
addition to her husband, she is survived by a son,
Andrew Peterson of Boston; a daughter, Nora, a
student at Arizona State University; her mother
Aletta (Bornhuetter) Angus of Clifton, N.J.; two
sisters, Robin Clark of Fountain Hills, Ariz. and
Julie Markoski of Alexandria, Va.; and several
nieces and nephews. A00003B2001SP19
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