Date of Birth:
Tuesday, October 15, 1935
Date of Death:
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Age:
79 years old

Darlene Inga Peters

The funeral service for Darlene Inga Peters will be at 11:00 a.m. Monday December 8, 2014 at the Congregational Church in Rochester, MN with the Rev. Teresa Roberts officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Rochester. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Macken Funeral home on Sunday December 7, 2014, and one hour before the service on Monday at church.

Darlene Inga Peters 79, of Rochester died Thursday November 27, 2014 of complications from a lengthy illness at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. Darlene resided at Arbor Terrace Assisted Living for three years.

Darlene was born October 15, 1935, in Eagle Bend, MN, to Arvid and Loretta Lawin Johnson. Darlene graduated from Little Falls High School in 1953 in Little Falls MN. She relocated to Rochester in 1955, and met her groom Frank Peters at Schultz’s farm in the strawberry fields. They were married on July 5, 1959 at Bethel Lutheran Church and raised two children. Darlene went through the Nursing Assistant program at Rochester Community College and worked as a nursing assistant at Rochester Methodist Hospital. She retired in 1997 after 25 years of service.

Darlene was a member of the Congregational Church and Women’s Circle, Tops, Crocheting Club, Camper’s Club “The Roamers’, Card Club and the Senior Citizen Center. Darlene was in 4-H and also was 4-H leader for her children. Darlene loved being at the cabin at Pine Island Lake, with all her family and friends. She was passionate about her family, flowers, and life. She had a green thumb and loved her flower gardens. Darlene enjoyed crocheting, knitting, scrapbooking, collecting dolls, crafts, and stuffed animals. Darlene loved to bake cookies with her granddaughters, going camping with friends, traveling to Florida to visit her family and friends. Darlene loved her dog “Pebbles’”.  She also enjoyed playing bingo, attending bible study and visiting with her friends at Arbor Terrace Assisted Living.

Darlene is survived by her loving children Susanne “Sue” (Peter) Chrisler of Apex, NC; Jerold “Jerry” Peters of Rochester; two granddaughters Kristina Chrisler of Orlando, FL and Nicole Chrisler of Apex, NC; her sister Audrey Grimm of Mesa, AZ ; sister-in-law Roberta Faust of St. Joseph, IL.; many nieces, great nieces, nephews, great nephews and other relatives and friends. She is preceded in death by her parents Arvid and Loretta Johnson, her husband of fifty five years Frank Peters who recently passed November 4, 2014, and her brother Byron Faust.

Darlene and Frank are now dancing the polkas and waltz in the strawberry fields in heaven. Darlene’s message to loved ones is “enjoy life as long as you can; remember family and friends; and be kind and pleasant to everyone.”

Memorials are preferred to the American Cancer Society or The Scleroderma Foundation or The Congregational Church in Rochester, MN.