Jerica Heather Peterson

Jerica Heather Peterson, age 38 of Blanchardville, formerly of Wyoming and Tennessee, died on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 as a result of a motorcycle accident. She was born on May 21, 1979 to Terry & Rose (Ike) Peterson in Spearfish, South Dakota and lived in Hulett, Wyoming where she went to grade school and graduated from Hulett High School in 1997, and she had a daughter, Athena Peterson. A special memory of her childhood was the visits to Wisconsin to see her grandparents and family there. A lot of her close friends in Wyoming called her Fred and Love Bug. She worked waitressing and road construction in her younger years. In 2003 she moved to Elizabethton, Tennessee with Brian Taylor. They were later married and had two children, Cameron and Donnavon together. In 2009 she moved back to Hulett . She moved to Blanchardville in 2013. While living in Wisconsin she worked for a couple years at the Pointer Café in Mineral Point, and worked for Maple Leaf Landscaping out of Verona. In 2017 she met the love of her life, Jason Deal. She and Jason started getting to know each other and love each other to the point where Jason proposed to her just recently in early March of this year. They looked forward to building a life together. Jerica was very gifted artistically, doing a lot of painting, craft work, and making jewelry. Jerica loved her friends from the motorcycle clubs, loved going to Sturgis, South Dakota with her dad, and loved working on her motorcycle with Jason. She collected frogs and loved the colors green and black. She also had a passion for playing Pool and was a very good shot.

Jerica is survived by her children, Athena (Dustin Trumpy) Peterson of Monticello; Cameron and Donnavon of Tennessee; her father, Terry Peterson of Blanchardville; her mother, Rose Peterson and her husband John Shoun of Sundance, Wyoming; her fiancé, Jason Deal of Hollandale; two grandchildren, and one on the way; three siblings, Jody (Craig) Goodell of Hulett, Wyoming, Anita (Bill Hanson) Geib of Hulett, Wyoming, and Luke Peterson of Hulett, Wyoming; four nieces and two nephews; her paternal grandmother Marie Peterson of Blanchardville; and special friend, Gretchen Taylor. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Amos Peterson; her maternal grandparents George and Bernice (Singleton) Ike; an uncle Ben Peterson; and a special friend Baldy Taylor.

A visitation for Jerica will be held on Sunday evening, March 18, 2018, from 4:00 until 8:00 PM at Blanchard Hall at 206 South Main St in Blanchardville. A funeral service will be held on Monday, March 19, 2018 with visitation at 10:00 AM and service at 11:00 AM at the Perry Lutheran Church in Daleyville. Rev. Kelli Fisher of that church will officiate. The Saether Funeral Home in Blanchardville is assisting the family. Online memories and condolences can be shared with the family at saetherfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers memorials to the family are suggested. To view Jerica's memorial video, please click on the following link: