Bailey Grace Peterson

Bailey Grace Peterson passed into her eternal life at 10:27 a.m. February 25, 2026 at the age of 27. She was born March 27, 1998 to Roger Lee Peterson and Terri Sellon Peterson. She loved life, her family, her friends, and animals of every kind. She had a huge heart for serving others and helping those in need of kindness, caring, and compassion. She was the person who “showed up” for others - her heart was bigger than life. She was a peacekeeper and peacemaker with a gentle, kind spirit that put everyone at ease. To know Bailey was to love her. She made sure everyone felt heard and cared for, no matter what the circumstances. These aren’t just kind words to speak about a loved one who has passed, this was Bailey’s daily, constant, nonstop love and care for the people around her. It was the natural, pure way she emitted love and light with every word she spoke and every action she made. Bailey was her true, loving self - right up until she passed. She always showed those around her how beautiful her soul was, especially when she was suffering so terribly and still always thought of others before herself.

Bailey loved traveling, finding fun restaurants and new cuisine, music, shopping, her summers on the lakes with family, and enjoyed playing a variety of sports throughout her life. She was a nursing assistant who cared deeply about her patients, and was enrolled in nursing school up until she was diagnosed with her third cancer. Her dream was to become a holistic nurse practitioner and help people overcome their physical and mental illnesses in a natural and holistic/homeopathic way. It is what she had a passion for, and what she was truly inspired by. She knew that conventional western medicine is not always the answer and wanted to help others in safer, more natural ways.

Bailey was first diagnosed with cancer at the age of five - JMML, Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia. She went through big guns treatment and had a bone marrow transplant in 2003, with her dad as her donor, who was a perfect match. She beat nearly unbeatable odds, she survived, and lived a busy, active, and happy life. It was considered by her doctors to be a true, head-shaking miracle, and showed us all that you are not defined by your diagnosis and prognosis outlook. In 2023, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, a secondary cancer caused by the radiation from her JMML treatment. She recovered, and continued her nursing schooling until she was diagnosed with her third cancer, colangiocarcinoma, in November 2024. She had full belief that she would kick this cancer to the curb, too, as did all of us.

Bailey is survived by her mother, Terri; her sister, Rachel (Tiff); her brother, Andrew (Malaika); the love of her life, Hunter, whom she had made so many wonderful life plans with; along with aunts, uncles, cousins, and many dear, close friends. She was preceded in death by her father, Roger.

Bailey was love, and she was light, and she was everything that was good in this world, and we will miss her sweet and kind spirit, her love, and her absolutely hilarious and fun personality until we can all join her some day soon for all eternity - never to be away from her ever again. We are so grateful to have had Bailey in our lives, our hearts are broken, and we will miss her dearly.

Bailey’s Celebration of Life will be Saturday, March 14, 2026, at The Mill Site in downtown Anoka, 111 Harrison St., from 12 noon - 4 pm. Bailey's service will begin at 1:00 pm, with Singing bowls beginning her service. Plenty of parking, including a free parking ramp a block away.

If you would like to share some favorite memories and stories of Bailey you are welcome to do so near the end of her service - we'd love to hear them! If you’d rather print something out to have the officiant read during the service instead, please feel free to send me your printed copy via email or snail mail.