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<\/p>\nMokelumne Hill, CA…Eleanor Lawrence Peterson, August 6, 1927 – July 5, 2021. Eleanor Lawrence Peterson, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away at her\u00a0longtime family\u00a0home in Mokelumne Hill on July 5 at the age of 93.\u00a0\u00a0In a recent column for the Stanford\u00a0Magazine on the occasion of her 70th reunion,\u00a0she had written that “it’s a great life, really.”<\/p>\n
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Eleanor was born in Los Angeles, CA on August 6, 1927 to Grove and Ruth (Follansbee) Lawrence.\u00a0 She graduated from University High School and earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Leland Stanford Junior University in 1948.\u00a0\u00a0The following year,\u00a0after earning her Master’s Degree in Political Science from Stanford, she\u00a0married John Ravlin Peterson in Los Angeles, and by 1961, with their four young children in tow, moved to northern California, where she raised six children total while serving as\u00a0Publisher\u00a0of the Calaveras Prospect and Calaveras Californian newspapers until 1998.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
All six of her children graduated from both Mokelumne Hill Elementary School and Calaveras High Schools.\u00a0 Upon retirement, she spent the majority of her time with family,\u00a0frequenting Gilbert and Sullivan theatre productions,\u00a0rooting on the Oakland Athletics, and making annual visits to\u00a0Yosemite National Park and the Wawona Hotel.\u00a0\u00a0In addition to owning and operating the oldest newspaper in the entire state of California for almost 40\u00a0years, she was employed in her early adulthood by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Redding Record-Searchlight newspaper.\u00a0 Her favorite activities included attending her children’s interscholastic sports competitions, recitals, musical plays and high school marching band events.<\/p>\n
Preceded in death\u00a0by her husband John Ravlin Peterson\u00a0(2008), Eleanor Peterson is survived by her six children:\u00a0 son Eric Grove Peterson and wife Anita of\u00a0Versailles, MO; daughter Lise Peterson and husband Donald of Aptos, CA; son Noel Lawrence Peterson and wife Kim of Tracy, CA; son John William Peterson and wife In Ja Halcomb of Pleasant Hill, CA; son David Forbes Peterson of Mokelumne Hill,\u00a0and\u00a0son Edward Follansbee Peterson and wife Jennifer of Las Vegas, NV.<\/p>\n
She is also survived by grandchildren John William Trimingham Peattie (Emily Wood) of San Francisco, CA, and Anne Mackintosh Peattie (Ammon Torrence) of Berkeley, CA, as well as\u00a0great-grandchildren Maeve and Josie Torrence of Berkeley, CA,, and Theo Peattie of San Francisco, CA.<\/p>\n
The entire Peterson family wishes to thank Dr. Ryan Thompson of Murphys for his 30+ years of care for their mother, as well as Hospice of Amador & Calaveras for their support during her final days.
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\nA Celebration of Life Memorial will be held at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in San Andreas, CA on August\u00a06.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial contributions be\u00a0made\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0Mokelumne Hill Fire Protection District, 8160 Church Street, Mokelumne Hill, CA, 95245.<\/p>\n
Family contact: Lise Peterson (831) 334-0207<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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