1920 IL CENSUS – Kermit L. Peterson (8y, b Illinois) enumerated with parents William C. (34y, b Illinois, occupation helper in restaurant) and Bertha M. (30y, b Illinois), 2 brothers, Lester F. (9y, b Illinois) and Harry R. (6y, b Illinois), and grandmother Anna M. Francis (71y, b New Jersey, widowed)

1930 IL CENSUS - Kermit Peterson, age 18, b. Illinois, is enumerated with Bertha Peterson, age 40, divorced, occupation laundress, b. Illinois, along with Lester, age 20, b. Illinois, and Harry, age 16, b. Illinois.

1940 IL CENSUS – Kermit Peterson (28y, b Illinois, occupation salesman) enumerated with wife Charlotte (25y, b Illinois) and daughter Julie K. (1y, b Illinois); family was living in same place in 1935

Zena Man Killed in Road Crash

Zena – Kermit L. Peterson, 47-year-old Zena area resident, was fatally injured Friday night when his pickup truck ran into a ditch near here on Brush College Road. Peterson, whose death was the 45th Marion-Polk traffic fatality of the year and 11th for Polk, was injured about 7:30 pm. He died at a Salem hospital some four hours later from head injuries. State police said Peterson, alone in his pickup, apparently skidded into the opposite ditch after rounding a curve. The vehicle bounced out of the ditch and then back into the ditch 30 feet away. Peterson was thrown from the vehicle. A motorist found him, state policeman William Oneill said, and he was taken to Salem Memorial Hospital by Willamette Ambulance.

Oregon Statesman, Saturday, November 7, 1959, page 1

Services Pending for Peterson, Wreck Victim

Funeral services are pending at the Virgil T. Golden Mortuary for Kermit L. Peterson, 47, of Rt 1, Box 758, Salem, who died Friday night at a local hospital. Mr Peterson’s death was from injuries received in a one-car traffic accident near his home earlier Friday. A Salem area resident since 1944, coming here from California, Mr Peterson was born Dec 22, 1911, at Prophetstown, Ill. For the past two eyars he had been a carpenter here. Prior to that he was a salesman for Hogg Bros and for Meier and Frank. Mr Peterson was a member of Capital Post No 9, American Legion and of the Congregational Church in Illinois. Surviving are his widow, the former Charlotte Upton, to whom he was married in 1936 in Prophetstown; a daughter, Mrs Julie Kronser, Salem; his mother, Mrs Bertha Peterson, Salem; two brothers, Lester Peterson, Salem, and Harry Peterson, Erie, Pa; and two grandchildren, David Keith Kronser and Laurinda Kay Kronse, Salem.

Capital Journal, Saturday, November 7, 1959, page 5  

Kermit L. Peterson
Illinois
TEC5 CO C 1264 ENGR C BN
World War II
Dec 22 1911 - Nov 6 1959

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Marion County 1959) #14317

1920 IL CENSUS (Whiteside co, Prophetstown, ED 170, sheet 7A)

1930 IL CENSUS (Whiteside Co. Prophetstown, ED 30, sheet 10B)

1940 IL CENSUS (Whiteside co, Prophetstown, ED 98-33, sheet 7A)

OS, 7 Nov 1959, page 1

CJ, 7 Nov 1959, page 5