Wanda Snow Petersen, age 90, died August 9, 2002 in her home.
She was born December 12, 1911 in Emery County to Mason Levi and Sarah B. Marsing Snow. She married Lorenzo E. Peterson June 28, 1934 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
Wanda received her Master of Science in Education at BYU in 1963, and for 38 years taught school, mostly grades one to three at Wellington School in Carbon County and Greenwood and Shelley Schools in American Fork.
She was active in many organizations, including 4-H clubs, Delta Kappa Gamma, the Democratic Party, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, the American Fork Art Council, The League of Utah Writers, and Penn Women. In addition, she served in the Primary and Young Women's organizations of the LDS Church. She has written and published five books.
She is survived by four children: Kay Marie Golding, La Habra, California; Myrna Ellen Olsen, American Fork; Norma LaRene Despain, Hawaii; and Jim Lorenzo Petersen, American Fork. She has 13 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 14, at 10:00 a.m. in the American Fork Hillcrest Stake Center, 165 N. 350 W., where friends may call Tuesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Burial is in the Ferron, Utah Cemetery at 4:00 p.m., under the direction of Anderson & Sons Mortuary, American Fork.