Lowell "Bud" Gordon Pederson

Lowell “Bud” Pederson, 87, of Cottonwood, passed away on Sunday, July 23, 2017 at Morningside Heights Care Center in Marshall. Funeral services will be 2:00 PM on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at Christ Lutheran Church in Cottonwood. Visitation will be from 4 – 7 PM on Tuesday at the church with a prayer service at 6:30 PM and will continue one hour prior to the service at the church on Wednesday. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The Sunset Funeral & Cremation Association is caring for the family.   Bud and his twin sister were born on July 29, 1929 in Montevideo Hospital to Lois (Gould) and Christopher “Christ” Pederson and grew up on the family homestead in Cottonwood with his parents, siblings (John, Margaret, and Ardys), and grandparents, John and Sena. Constant and admiring companion to his grandfather, John, Lowell earned the nickname “Buddy”, which seemed to fit him well.   As a young man, Bud made the wisest decision of his life when he offered a ride home to the beautiful and sweet waitress at Slettes’s Café, Alnora Hanson. Bud and Alnora married on September 15, 1951, at Christ Lutheran Church, and together they raised five children, for whom he had great love and pride.   Bud began farming at age 14, choosing to live his life in stewardship to the land first homesteaded by his great-grandparents. After 56 years of steadfast commitment to the joys and trials of farming, Bud retired from the work he so loved, continuing to live with his adored wife among the family and friends that have always made Cottonwood his home.   Bud is lovingly honored by his wife, Alnora, and his children and their spouses (son, Steve; daughter, Paula Muller, and her husband, Brad; daughter, Diane Hatfield, and her husband, Scott; daughter Tamara Pederson and her husband, Dennis O’Neill; and son Kevin and his wife, Lisa). He is also survived by his six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, who brought him great joy, and by his beloved sisters, Margaret Rewerts and Ardys Eye. He follows to heaven his parents and grandparents, older brother John, and the many other ancestors who had bequeathed to him the values of hard work, persistence and resilience in tough times, unconditional love and support to family, helpfulness and gratitude to friends and neighbors, and commitment to God and community. We strive to carry on in his example.     “Now, rest in peace and joy, Buddy.”