Born in Endeavor, PA on March 28, 1935, she was the daughter of the late Richard Owen Lee and Martha Irene Culbertson Lee.
Laura was a graduate of Warren High School and had worked in Correspondence at Blair in Warren, Pa. and at West Jr. High in Alexander County, NC
Laura was a faithful member of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Charlotte, NC. Earlier, she was an Eucharistic Minister and a member of Young at Heart.
Survivors include her husband, Lawrence Edwin Peterson; 2 daughters, Deborah Peterson Bennett and her husband, Gary, Diana Louisa Peterson and her partner, Eric Beckwith; grandchildren, Katherine Louisa Bennett, Kelly Rampy and her husband, Blake, Justin Bennett and his wife, Sasha and Nick Bennett and his wife, Kim and several great grandchildren.
Laura was preceded in death by 4 siblings, Alice Louisa Lee, Richard Owen Lee Jr., Robert Lee and Edward Carl Lee.