Emery Edwin Peterson Sr.

Services for Emery Edwin Peterson Sr., 75, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. James A.M.E. Church. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery.

Mr. Peterson died Friday, Feb. 13, 2004, at a Topeka hospital.

He was born Jan. 28, 1929, in Lawrence, the son of Walter James Peterson and Florence Edna Morris-Peterson.

Mr. Peterson served in the U.S. Navy from 1948 to 1950. He was a postal carrier for the Jayhawk Post Office from 1956 until he retired in 1984.

He married Lillian Esper Nadine Collins on Oct. 14, 1948. She died June 6, 1996. A son, Emery Edwin “Yo-yo” Jr., died Sept. 5, 1964.

Survivors include a grandson, James M. Winborn III, Lawrence, and a great-grandchild, Taylor M. Jackson, Topeka.

Friends may call from 11 a.m. until the service time Thursday at the church.

Bowser Johnson Funeral Chapel in Topeka is in charge of arrangements.