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Oscar Peterson
19 Feb 1898 – 3 Sep 1970
| Birth | 19 Feb 1898 |
| Death | 3 Sep 1970 |
| Cemetery | Greenwood Cemetery Warren , Marshall County , Minnesota , USA |
| Added by | L on 26 Apr 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89163369 |
Bio
Once accompanied singer Peggy Lee. From Warren, Mn "Plains to Plenty", 1980: Oscar "Patsy" Peterson was born in Warren, Minnesota on February 19, 1898, to Peter and Kristina Peterson. Early in his life he discovered he had a talent for music and though he never had any formal training, he could hear a musical number once or twice and he had it memorized for he played by ear. He played with various bands. One group known as the "Nite Owls" was composed of "Patsy" at the piano, his brother David who played banjo, guitar and violin, Bill Clark on drums and was the soloist, and Arno La Roche on saxophone. They were popular for years around the late twenties and early thirties. "Patsy" accompanied the now-famous singer, Peggy Lee, when she first started out singing at the Powers Hotel Coffee Shop in Fargo, North Dakota. Later he took a piano-tuning course by mail and as an employee of the Stanton-Becker and later the Daveau Music Company he was called on to tune the pianos for many famous artists - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Lauritz Melchior, Marion Anderson, violinist Arthur Spaulding, harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler to name a few. On April 14, 1924 he was married to Ella Elise Goplin in Warren by Pastor Knute Winberg. She was born in rural Newfolden on August 7, 1905 to Sam and Laura (Webjornson) Goplin. To this union were born their one son, Dale Orlando Peterson, who now serves two pastorates in Michigan and Whitman, North Dakota, as a Lutheran pastor. He was married to Ioyne Gangnes with whom he had two sons, Jeffrey Brian and Gregory Dale. Later he was married to Nadine Anderson who was a teacher in the Warren schools and they have four sons: Darren, Joel, Kent and Mark. Oscar Peterson died in 1970 and Ella Peterson continues to live in their home at 717 North Main Street.
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