From judynvic@zianet.com Mon Oct 13 11:25:05 1997
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 12:20:00 -0600
From: Judy Kemper <judynvic@zianet.com>
To: jerparks@www.polylith.com
Subject: [Fwd: Biography]

Hi Jerry

Here is  a bio from Rev. Peterson. I hope you will find time to update
our page soon.

Thanks for all your time and effort. When I see other church pages, I
think ours is way ahead.

Now if we could just put some of our choir music on there......

Judy Kemper

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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 13:19:36 EDT
From: Stephen E Peterson <oreopete@juno.com>
To: judynvic@zianet.com
Subject: Biography

This is the second time I'm writing this because I had the wrong address
and it was returned. l know you won't want to mess with it till you get
back from Pennsylvania but I'll try again, anyway;. If you want to change
the format or correct anything that would be wonderful--obviously I can't
change the life I've lived however.

The Rev. Stephen Peterson was born on the family farm in Cass county,
Michigan.  When he was only three, his mother died and he was raised by
his uncle and his wife, Homer and Josephine Stewart.  He attended schools
in Niles and Edwardsburg, Michigan, graduating from Niles High School. 
Four years later, he received his bachelor's degree from the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, majoring in political science.

An ROTC graduate, Stephen was called into the Korean conflict and served
as a platoon leader and motor officer overseas. He returned to civilian
life and worked for a year as a life insurance salesman, then entered
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville , Kentucky.  

After graduation from seminary and ordination, he served as pastor of
Presbyterian churches in Schoolcraft, Grand Rapids, and Cassopolis,
Michigan. An active reserve officer, he was called back in the Army as a
chaplain during the Vietnam conflict, remaining in the service until
retirement.  His army service included assignments in 
Virginia, New York, and Texas in the United States, and Korea, Germany,
France, and Vietnam overseas. Since his army retirement, he served as
pastor of Trinity Presbyterian church in Mckinney, Texas for six years,
then becoming interim pastor of Presbyterian churches in Whitesboro and
El Paso, Texas.  He is now interim pastor of Northminster Presbyterian
Church in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Rev. Peterson and his wife, Sandra, a public middle school teacher, live
in El Paso, Texas.  Together they have ten children and Stephen has
eleven grandchildren.