Shirley Ann Petersen

TOPEKA, Kan. — Shirley Ann Petersen, 85, Topeka, Kan., died June 10, 2022, at Stormont-Vail Hospital.

Graveside services will be at the Hartington City Cemetery at 2 p.m., Aug. 26, with Pastor Amanda Talley officiating.

Lunch with family and friends will be at the City Park Shelter House following the services. Shirley was born Jan. 26, 1937, in Sioux City, Iowa, the daughter of Dennis and Ethel Ann Collins Provancha. She lived in Hartington, where she raised her family. She later moved to Bloomfield, before moving to Topeka to be closer to family.

Her family was the most important to her and she was the best Shirley Petersen grandmother you could ever want.

She loved the holidays and enjoyed wearing silly hats to make people smile. Her hobbies were bingo, music, baking cookies and angel food cake for Easter, dancing, bike riding and roller skating, which had to be put on the back burner but was always talked about. She loved her birds like her mom. She had two Cockatiels.

Shirley’s faith in God was very important to her. She knew she would be in heaven when her time came but fought very hard to stay with her family as long as she could. She prayed for her family and friends that they would know Jesus as she did. She will be waiting to greet us at the end of our journey with open arms.

Survivors include six children, Rosemarie Doyle, Topeka, Kan.; Sharon Wist (Gary), Omaha; Sally Cox, Lincoln; Calvin Schager, Egan, S.D.; Lois Chaffin (Frank), Osage, Kan.; and adopted daughter, Deb Stockwell, Topeka, Kan.; 14 grandchildren: Rob Joseph (Miranda Hoy), Nebraska; Angela Harding, Kansas; Carrie Davis (Tony), Iowa; Carla Wist, Nebraska; Warren Lange (Megan), Wisconsin; Justin Lange, Nebraska; Kristina Garcia (Jared), Nebraska; Taylor Ketelsen (Eric Fitch), Nebraska; Casey Henke (Johnna), Iowa; Channah Schager, Nebraska; John Smith, Tennessee; Philip Smith, Tennessee; Danny Smith, Tennessee; Teresa Smith, Kansas; 23 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild, and one on the way.