Darwin Peterson

Profile Updated: August 18, 2024
Residing In Broken Arrow, OK USA
Spouse/Partner Marilea
Occupation? Still working? Retired after 40 years with GE Healthcare
Children My daughter Carrie born in 1984. Married to Jacob Everidge, 2 boys.
My son Travis born in 1981. More…Married to Shauna, 2 girls.
Marilea's daughter Brenda born 1965. Married to Kyle, 2 boys, 1 girl.
Marilea's daughter Debra born 1961. 2 boys, 1 girl.
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I went to Wadena Technical Institute from fall of 1967 thru May of 1969. I put everything I owned in the backseat and trunk of my 1968 maroon Camero and headed for Houston, Texas. I worked for NCR for close to 4 years before quitting and going to work for General Electric Medical Systems. I worked in service in the Texas Medical Center and all around Texas before becoming a support engineer with GE. In the fall of 1994 we packed up everything and moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. I continued to support the field engineers for GE in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma until I retired on April 1 of 2013. Since retirement Marilea and I have gone on a couple of cruises. We make several visits to Branson every year. We enjoy the entertainment there. I have restored 3 old tractors and am working on the fourth.

School Story

I remember Mr Kamrud telling us, "It takes a big dog to weigh a ton". Ray Falls taught us about the various Chinese Dynasties but my favorite was "Yorkitomo".

Strange or Unusual Life event

Sometimes we get a second chance at life as we survive a bad disease or some close brush with death. I had this experience many years ago back on 9-11-1991. Since this experience I know I better do some good with the many additional years God has given me.
I was working for GE and was going to work on some X-ray equipment in Larado Texas. I lived in Houston so I got on a Continental Airlines flight that left Houston Intercontinental airport at 7am. During the flight I felt a unusual vibration that did not seem to have anything to do with engine speed. We landed and I felt I should mention the vibration to the crew but figured they noticed it and would check it out. The plane would be headed back to Houston in an hour.
I received a call a while after I got to the hospital. A fellow worker knew I was going to Larado and not knowing my exact plans, wanted to make sure I wasn't on the plane that just crashed. It never made it back to Houston.
Through a series of maintenance errors that had occurred the night before, 43 screws that secure the front surface of the tail's horizontal stabilizer had been removed and never replaced. The vibration I was feeling was the stabilizer moving up and down. By the time of the second and last decent of this plane, this part had weakened and broke off causing the plane to crash.

See Breakup Over Texas
Summary (1:07min)
http://youtu.be/gzveSguiN60

Disaster Details (38min)
https://youtu.be/mnC_0ecx0VM

Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Express_Flight_2574

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Posted on: Aug 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM

Tom and all,
When I read your email I remembered I had Alan’s phone number so I called it and we talked for a long time.
He said he isn’t very techy. He uses his phone for calls only and doesn’t use email. He had no idea we were having reunions.
He did give me his address and cell number:

218-338-5665

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MESSAGE from Bruce Boehne 12-10-2023, Maggie had heart attack earlier today. She went to the hospital and was in the ICU unit. She passed away this evening. I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Jan 11, 2023 at 10:10 PM

Message from Maggie:
Hello, everyone! After much consideration and conversation with people involved with this Class of 66 & 67 reunion, it was decided to continue with the yearly event and at the same place as the last few years. So mark your calendar for 7/26/23 Double Eagle Golf and Grill 31886 Co Rd 3 Eagle bend MN. Cocktails at 4 Dinner at 5 Buffet chicken,ham all the trimmings,salad bar desert & coffee. You are responsible for your alcohol drinks. Amout is 22.50 each same as last year?. RSVP VIA text or email Phyllis Hertel 763 228-4226 email phyllishertel@gmail or Maggie Thoennes 612 849 0589 or email m.thoennes@comcast.net by 7/7/2023 pmt need by 7/14/2023 mail to Phyllis Hertel 2460 119th Unit G Blaine MN 55449.. stay safe, everyone can't wait to see you
Hopefully, we will have a great turnout.

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Sad news,
Shortly after his 73rd birthday, Robert Nelson passed away surrounded by his family on January 30, 2022, at Tri County Health Care in Wadena, MN.

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Even at 72 I’m learning that you could fill a book with all the things you can’t learn from a book!

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Time to repost my “Class of ‘67” song!

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30 years ago at 7am on 9-11-1991 I was on a plane headed to Laredo Tx from Houston. We landed safely, but that was the last successful landing of that Continental Flight 2574. It just wasn't my time to go although it ended 14 other lives that fateful day.

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Aerial photo of Parkers from bank calendar about 1970
Sharing this PDF from my siblings. The resolution from the scan isn’t the greatest but perhaps some remember the bank calendar from which it came.

From my brother Kim Boyce:

I was looking through some files this morning and came across a print of an aerial photo of Parkers, so I scanned it to a pdf. I believe it came from the front of a promotional calendar from the Parkers Bank. Perhaps you all have this photo. I had not remembered it was in my files.

From my brother Dale Boyce:
I think it was from the 1970 bank calendar. I have the cover but not the monthly date pages so I am not positive of the year. I had it on my dorm room wall at NDSU so it was prior to 1972.

The move( by Ned and Norma and all) from Effington to Horsehead was in June 1972.

Dan Boyce
709 8th St SE
East Grand Forks, MN 56721-2386
Home: 218-773-2672
Cell: 701-741-0665

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Apr 19, 2021 at 10:49 PM

There is something that I wish we did more on this website. Please, let us share what we do in our spare time. I know several class members that have hobbies from gardens to building and restoration. I’ll start out by showing a buggy that I dug out of the weeds behind our farm back in the ‘80’s. I bought the spokes from the Amish. The oak wood was purchased for $100 from Dan’s Dad Ned Boyce. The man that lived in a log cabin behind our farm visited our house in the buggy back in the ‘50’s. His name was Jason Allen.

Apr 18, 2021 at 11:45 PM

I had a visit from our classmate Dave Krohnfeldt a week ago. He and Mary live in Canyon City, Co. He drove over on his BMW motorcycle and stayed a few days. We talked a lot about the “good old days in Minnesota. As you may remember, he moved with his family to Long Prairie when we were starting our tenth grade. What a good time we had!

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