This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hacker Venteicher Klocke Sievers Langreck Meiners Throop Pauley Bueltel Fossing Kral Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gk.2ADI/1164 Message Board Post: From the Austin Daily Herald, Austin, MN Friday February 22, 1952 OBITUARIES 1872 ---- HANS SIEVERS ---- 1952 Hans H. Sievers was born Dec. 22, 1872, in in Tama county, Iowa, and passed away Feb. 17, 1952, at St. Olaf Hospital after a two week illness. He was the son of Hans Henry Sievers and Anna Arff Sievers. On Feb. 10, 1897, he was united in marriage with Caroline Steinhauer. To this union, five children were born, two sons and one daughter preceding him in death and one son and daughter surviving. M. Sievers farmed in Carroll county, Iowa, until 1919, when he moved to a farm, southwest of Austin. Here, he resided until his retirement, moving to his home in Oakland in the fall of 1946, where he lived until his death. He was very active in Farm Bureau work, both in Iowa and Minnesota and for several years, served as secretary of the Oakland Creamery. He was a member of the Oakland Presbyterian church. Mr. Sievers is survived by his widow; a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Guy, Austin; a son Arthur, Austin; a sister, Mrs. John Rix, Arcadia, Iowa; a brother, William Sievers, Carroll, Iowa; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Central Presbyterian church, Austin, Rev. Lyndon Schendel officiating. Temporary interment was at Oakwood.