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Florence Fern Peters
FLORENCE FERN PETERS
Marion
Florence Fern Peters, 87, of Marion, Iowa, passed away Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, at ManorCare Nursing Home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Family will greet friends from 10 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Central City, Iowa. A funeral service will follow at 11 a.m. on Friday at the funeral home officiated by the Rev. Dondrea Walker. Burial will take place at Linwood Cemetery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Florence was born Dec. 19, 1932, the daughter of Louis and Edith (Cox) Fitzgerald. She graduated from Muscatine High School. Florence worked for Alliant Energy and CIPCO, retiring in 2016.
Florence is survived and lovingly remembered by her two daughters, Edith (Paul) Rasband of Draper, Utah, and Bonny Peters of Prole, Iowa; sister, Ruth Peterson of Davenport, Iowa; and two nephews, Tom (Kathy) Peterson of Cedar Rapids and Craig (Dotty) Peterson of Davenport, Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and husband, Jim Peters.
Please share a memory of Florence at www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.
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