So Penny Pearson was crushed to learn that her son would not return from his Army deployment in time to see her graduate. But Sgt. Dustin Pearson, 29, had secretly arranged to attend the event and ...

MANKATO, MN - Penny Pearson thought her husband was going to pin her for her pinning ceremony when she graduated from nursing school. Her son, home from a deployment in Kuwait and Iraq ...

"I couldn't even hear what [the presenter] was saying," Penny Pearson said of the moment her son surprised her. "I lost it." A mother’s graduation from nursing school was all the more worthwhile ...

Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Pennie Pearson; daughters, Heather (Nicholas) Clark and Victoria Kjeldgaard; daughters-in-love, Savannah Knuettel and Stephanie Templeton; grandkids ...

So Penny Pearson was crushed to learn that her son would not return from his Army deployment in time to see her graduate. But Sgt. Dustin Pearson, 29, had secretly arranged to attend the event and ...