Edward Peterson

June 24, 1936-October 29, 2025

Edward Peterson passed away peacefully at his farm, surrounded by his family on October 29, 2025 at the age of 89.

Ed was born on a farm west of Ferintosh. After graduating from Mount Royal College in Calgary, Ed hitched a ride with Ollie Williams, a trucker, who dropped him off at a hotel in Estevan, SK, where it was up to Ed to find a job with Sun Oil in the oil field in the Frobisher area. There he met Alice at a hockey game. They were married in 1960, built a house and started a family of three girls: Shelley, Rhonda and Myrna.

Ed and Alice moved their family to Edson, Alberta in 1966 when Ed got a job with Hudson Bay Oil and Gas as a gas plant operator in the sour gas plant. He earned his 4th and 3rd Class Steam Tickets, studying whenever he could catch some time. With these qualifications, Ed got a job with Mobil Oil in the sour gas plant in Carstairs, Alberta. Close proximity to classes at SAIT made it easier to get his 2nd Class Steam Ticket. Working 12-hour shifts gave Ed time to be a part-time cattle farmer. He and Alice bought a quarter-section of land close to his family’s home place west of Ferintosh in 1974.

With Ed’s experience and qualifications, he was hired by Francana Oil to make the sour gas plant at Rosalind operational, a job at which he was successful, starting in 1978. By this time, the family had moved permanently to the farm in Ferintosh. In the early 1980’s Ed left the oil patch for good to become a full-time farmer, with a farrowing barn full of hogs and a cow-calf operation of 50 head of cattle. The 1980’s were a time of travel for Ed and Alice. They made two trips to Europe and numerous trips to Las Vegas and Reno, meeting up with his brother John. Fascinated by the North, Ed and Alice made two trips to Alaska—one by air and the other by road, as well as trips to Whitehorse and Yellowknife, the latter before the bridge was built across the Mackenzie River.

In retirement in the 1990s, Ed helped to launch the Camrose Kodiaks junior hockey team, serving on the Board of Directors, as well. Both Ed and Alice were volunteer drivers with Meals on Wheels in Camrose. They floor-curled regularly for many years, with Ed skipping and Alice playing third on championship teams at bonspiels from Sedgewick to Glendon to Breton to Ponoka. Ed skipped a team that represented Alberta in the Canadian championship but didn’t come home with a trophy from that one.

The family would like to thank Ronda Loyer, Roxanne Schulz and Jackie Codel of Plan It Consulting, and Chris Sedgwick of Integrated Services for their generous and kind care of Ed and Alice. They have become part of our family.

Ed is survived by his beloved wife Alice, daughters, Shelley Stagg Peterson, Rhonda Siemens and Myrna Johnston.  His grandchildren, Shelbi Matheson, Jolea Siemens, Adam Johnston and Gabby Nebert, great grandchildren, Harlow and Sienna Matheson, and Owen Nebert, and his brother, Stanley Peterson.

He is predeceased by his parents, Anna and George, by his sisters, Tena Augustin, Dora Leland, Jane Treleaven and Rhoda Richards, and by his brothers, Peter, John and James.

A memorial service will take place on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 2 p.m. at Webers Mount Pleasant Chapel (2 Mount Pleasant Drive) in Camrose, Alberta.

Memorial contributions in Ed’s memory may be made to Parkinson Canada.