The Daily News-October 1965 PEDERSON, Mathilda K. Age 89, of Puget Island, died in a local hospital. She was born in Norway and had lived in Puget Island since 1908. She was a member of the Puget Island Seventh-day Adventist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Pearl Wright of Kelso; Rae Fritzie of Puget Island; two sons, Ralph Peterson of Tacoma and Obert Peterson of Seattle; 10 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; one brother, Konrad Johannsen of Norway; and one sister, Nanda Bakken of Seattle. Services will be Wednesday at the Dowling Funeral Chapel in Cathlamet with Pastor Harold E. Kurtz and associate Pastor George R. Thayer officiating. Ditlevsen-Moore Funeral Home is in charge. Mathilda C. Johanessen Pedersen Pedersen Greenwood Cemetery-Cathlamet, Wasington 19 Feb 1876-17 Oct 1965 (As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society 2007 from original newspaper collection.)