City of Sioux City issued the following announcement on Oct. 14.
Explore the community’s past with two Sioux City Public Museum fall programs featuring local cemeteries. Sioux City’s Catholic Cemetery is featured in History at High Noon: Calvary Cemetery starting online on Thursday, October 15. The presentation may be accessed at siouxcitymuseum.org/history-at-high-noon along with other past History at High Noon presentations.
Walt Peterson, a long-time Calvary Cemetery employee, provides unique insights into the cemetery’s history in this photographic presentation. Peterson first worked at Calvary Cemetery in the summer of 1979. He helped with mowing and doing grounds work, off and on until 1990 when he started full time. In 1997, he became the grounds superintendent. In 2014, Peterson was installed as the executive director. He has been a member of the Catholic Cemetery Conference since 2005. Among his wide-ranging job duties are writing newsletters to coordinating funerals with funeral homes to maintaining the cemetery grounds.
Notable individuals who shaped local history will be highlighted in the free Logan Park Cemetery Walking Tour on Saturday, October 24 with a limit of 20 participants. Led by Tom Munson, Archives Manager, and Haley Aguirre, Archival Records Clerk, the 90-minute walking tour starts at 10 a.m. Reservations are required by calling 712-279-6174. Social distancing guidelines will be observed during the tour.
Founded in 1892, Logan Park Cemetery is the burial site of Jay N. “Ding” Darling, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, Louise Zerschling, pioneering Sioux City Journal reporter, and entrepreneur Henry Metz. Along with visiting the graves of several prominent individuals and families, tour guides will show historic photographs, provide biographical information, and tell about their lives. To fully explore the cemetery, quite a bit of walking will be required, including some hills.
While the Sioux City Public Museum recently reopened to the public, some on-site programs have been suspended until further notice. For more information, call 712-279-6174 or visit SiouxCityMuseum.org.
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