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View Record Number 6116 - Mr. Donald Joseph Peteranna

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Name:Mr. Donald Joseph Peteranna
DOB:04/03/1937
DOD:03/08/2018
Age:81
Address:239
Garryhellie
Isle of South Uist
HS8 5SX
Place of death:Uist + Barra Hospital, Isle of Benbecula
Funeral Location:St. Peter's RC Church, Daliburgh
Presider:Fr. Ross S.J. Crichton
Occupation:Business Man/Hotel Owner/Business Owner
Additional Info:Tribute To DJ Peteranna - Glasgow Herald
Donald Joseph Peteranna, who has died aged 81, developed a range of businesses on Uist, while continuing to run the family croft.
Known to all as DJ, he was born in Garryhallie, South Uist, the second oldest with five brothers and his sister Kathy, to Mary Kate Steele, a housekeeper and John, crofter and builder.
During the war years everything was a little scarce, but on Uist people were a bit better off than many others. Most people had their own milk, butter, eggs, potatoes, vegetables and lamb. Of course, there was rationing for luxuries like sugar and tea.
His father would manage to buy half a bullock at the sales and split the carcass, always sharing it out among the neighbours. There was no running water and no electricity to run a freezer so the meat would be salted in barrels to preserve it.
School was not important to him and he preferred to be working with his father with the sheep, cattle and horses. But on his first day in Daliburgh School in 1942, he was given a desk to share with Ronnie Morrison, they got on well and went through all their school years together.
On one occasion, watching bricklayers at work, they decided that that was what they wanted to do. This changed a couple of months after that, the weather turned cold and – seeing plumbers working at the school with blowlamps which gave out quite a heat – they decided that that was the career for them.
DJ's headmaster encouraged this, feeling that, as most of the island didn’t have mains water, there was a good future for a plumber there.
DJ left school at the age of 15 and took up an apprenticeship in welding, fitting, shipwrighting and plumbing. He started working with a company called John Crawford in the new Glasgow housing schemes of Ruchazie, Barlanark and Easterhouse. Wages were under £3 a week, out of which they paid digs of £2 a week and had to buy and launder their own boiler suits which did not leave much for anything else.
DJ was forty years old before he had his first real holiday touring America with Pat. On this trip his visited the Rotunda at Capital Hill, Washington D.C. On display there, is a replica of the Magna Carta, which sits on a slab of pegmatite that was presented to the United States by Britain to celebrate their bicentennial in 1976.
DJ himself, with others, had removed this rock from Ardivachair, Uist, which was the nearest accessible point to the States and at 300,000 million years old, represents the time that the two continents were joined together.
DJ was lucky enough to have a long busy active working life and enjoyed good health for nearly all of it. He continued the traditions of sheep, cattle, potatoes and peats and liked to see families work together and eat together.
He is blessed with six children: Iain, Stephen, Patricia, Donald, Sheila and Colin, 26 grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren for granted for whom he did everything he could to give them a good start in life.
He was very, very proud of the tradesmen that he trained and the work they produced across Scotland.

Section:5
Gravestone Inscription:In Loving Memory Of
Donald Joseph Peteranna
Died 3 August 2018
Aged 81 Years
A Dear Father, Grandfather and
Greatgrandfather
and Much Loved Husband of
Pat

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Relatives

Mr. Charles Peteranna (Brother) (deceased) view record.


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