Lloyd
Joseph Peterson, 88
Gresham,
Ore. - Lloyd Peterson died February 11, 2004 at
Fairlawn Health Care Center in Gresham, Ore.
Lloyd
was born January 3, 1916 in Thief River
Falls.
On
July 18, 1942 he married Beatrice Olson of
Goodridge.
Lloyd
grew up on a farm in Pennington County and went to
Busy Bee School in Smiley Township. During the '50s
he worked for the the Hughes Aircraft Corporation
owned by Howard Hughes in Los Angeles, Calif. It
was while President Kennedy was pushing the space
program to have the first successful moon landing,
Lloyd was one of a select group of employees chosen
to compete this secret project in record time. It
required many hours of overtime.
He
and Beatrice moved from Hawthorne, Calif. to
Portland in 1968 where he worked for Simplex
Manufacturing Company until his
retirement.
One
of his many hobbies was the challenge of repairing
anything mechanical that had moving parts. Beatrice
said she didn't need to feel jealous if one of the
ladies approached Lloyd in church, she knew that
they had some small appliances needing repairs.
When they made their annual trip to Minnesota to
visit relatives, everyone had a "to do" list for
him. That was his entertainment.
Survivors
include his wife of 62 years; four sisters, Evelyn
Strandquist of Thief River Falls, Dorothy Grill of
Princeton, Eunice Beals of Eagle Point, Ore. and
Ruby Crimp of Portland, Ore.; and many nieces and
nephews.
He
was preceded in death by two brothers, Arvid and
William; and two sisters, Myrtle Vall and Alice
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