Carol Catherine Ryan, age 79, of Kiester, MN, formerly of Bull Shoals, Arkansas, died Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022 at her home in Kiester, MN. Funeral Services will be held privately with family.  Interment will be at a later date. Bruss-Heitner Funeral Home in Wells is entrusted with arrangements. Please see brussheitner.com to leave online condolences.

     Carol was born January 17, 1943, the daughter of Lawrence and Genevieve (Hobart) Kremer in Wells, MN.  In 1968, she was united in marriage to Charles “Charlie” Peterson.  They were married for 26 years, until his passing in 1994. During those years, Carol worked on their acreage east of Forest City, Iowa first raising exotic birds and small livestock, and then had a kennel raising dogs for many years.  As years passed and Charlie’s health began to fail, Carol went to work as a cook at the Forest City hospital, later moving to cook at the Good Samaritan Care Center where Charlie was living, so that she could spend time with him each day.

   A couple of years after Charlie’s passing, a mutual love of fishing brought her and Anthony “Tony” Ryan together and led to marriage. They traveled and lived following the fishing, which in 2003 finally landed them in Bull Shoals, Arkansas where they purchased a home and spent the last 19 years of their life together fishing the beautiful White River, Bull Shoals Lake, and making dear new friends.  They also thoroughly enjoyed having family and “old” friends come to visit them, taking them fishing, and giving them a tour of the beautiful area that they had chosen to retire and live out the rest of their life in.

    Upon Tony’s recent passing, Carol made the difficult decision to return to “the north”.  She made her new home at her daughter Cathy’s home in Kiester for the remainder of her days, being able to spend time with family that she had been missing.

     She is survived by her daughters Cathy (Robert) Wilde and Chrissy (Dana) DeLong; grandchildren: Melissa Dirksen, Joshua (Ashley) Olson, Shaun (Brenda) Peterson, Jessica Daniels, Scott Peterson, Courtney Frascht (Justin Tegland), Tyler Frascht (Kailynn Hamersma) Dylan Frascht, Trevor Frascht (Michaela Grant), Hayley Frascht; and many great-grandchildren.