This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#144137) Marvin Joseph "Buzz" Sires, Jr. 1926 - 2002 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/allamakee/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=144137> AUTHOR: Errin Wilker DATE: 2/4/2007 at 18:40:30 Surnames: SIRES,PICKEL,HERMAN,SMITH,LAWSON,ERBIN,SANDRY Marvin "Buzz" Sires, 76, died Sunday, April 7, 2002, in Northgate Care Center after a brief illness. Services: 11 a.m. Thursday, Martin Funeral Home, Waukon, by the Rev. Steve Campbell. Burial: Mount Hope Cemetery, rural Dorchester. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Survivors include his wife, Beulah; four daughters, Sandra Pickel and Marianne Herman, both of Dubuque, Linda Smith of Des Moines and Nicole Lawson of Waukon; two sons, Gary of Fort Dodge and Dean of Oskaloosa; and five half brothers, Tom Sires of Omaha, Don Sires of Oregon and Bill and Mike Sires and Phil Erbin, all of Waterloo. Source: The Gazette, Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, Iowa, 9 April 2002 BORN: 02 Jan 1926 in Center Township, Allamakee County, Iowa PARENTS: Marvin Joseph Sires, Sr. & Antoinette H. Sandry