Valerie Peterson Day, Tribe of Maurice
Update of the Valerie and Larry Day family within the Tribe of Maurice, 2025
After marrying in 1970, Val and Larry lived in Mesa AZ, while she completed her nursing degree from Arizona State University. They returned to the Twin Cities for Larry’s graduate work in Hospital Administration. A residency assignment took them to upstate NY, where they raised their three children. The family was active in the early resurgence of homeschooling movement.
In 2000 Larry began Ministerial Studies Program through the Christian and Missionary Alliance, leading to ordination. He served as pastor in Waverly NY. After several years, his ministry focus shifted to interdenominational benevolence ministries in their community, straddling the NY/PA border. Val returned to work as a psychiatric nurse. They retired to Tucson AZ in 2019.
Valerie Peterson Day, Tribe of Maurice, Memories, from 2000
The doxology at every family gathering…getting homesick at Wood Lake camp…riced potatoes at Sandberg’s…Uncle Don’s tin and jawbreakers…swimming at “the cabin…”…Auntie Vone’s Sunday School story about the red hen who hid her chicks under her wing…Larry’s first Christmas Eve with the family, 40 below zero at Uncle Delroy’s…Uncle Irvin getting us ice cream from the creamery…Uncle Delroy leading the “opening exercises” at Wood River Church…waiting until the dishes were done to open gifts on Christmas Eve…having to confess when I stole a keychain from Judie’s room…Auntie Teela’s prayers and homemade rolls (they often went together)…riding to CYF in Paul’s VW…pigs, peas from the pond, “kick-the-can” and singing in the neighborhood when we visited Aunt Annie…finding kittens in the Sandberg’s barn…Auntie Vone’s egg coffee…the family singing “Great is Thy Faithfulness” at Christmas Eve in Webster church.