WM. SIEVERS OF CALHOUN DIED MONDAY

Was Outstanding Citizen. Prominent In Business And Civic Activities

OPERATED STORE, FUNERAL HOME

William Sievers of Fort Calhoun died Monday, March 19th after four days of illness. He passed away at the Methodist Hospital.

Deceased was born at St. Paul, Nebraska October 26, 1874. In his early childhood the family moved to Grand Island where he grew to manhood and attended the Grand Island Business college.

In 1894 he went to Omaha where he worked for two years, and then went to Calhoun in 1896 and took a position in the store owned and operated by Carl Feldhusen.

In 1903 he bought out Mr. Feldhusen, and since that time he has continued to operate the business.

On May 2, 1900 he was married to Anna Sierk, and to them three children were born. Richard in Calhoun, Walter in Chicago and Dorothy, who is teaching in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Besides his immediate family of wife and three children, he leaves one sister, Mrs. Minnie Hofmann of Grand Island and one brother, Otto, at Huntington Beach, California and three grandchildren.

In his business activities, besides operating a general mercantile business, Mr. Sievers, with August Schroeder, founded the Schroeder & Sievers Funeral Home in 1905 which he operated until his death.

He was a good businessman, and bore an enviable reputation for honesty. He was also civic minded and served on the city council, as city clerk, as mayor, and was for a long term of years a member of the school board.

In all the business interests of his hometown, he was always vitally interested and will be missed greatly. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, of the Masonic Lodge, and of the Eastern Star, all of which he actively supported.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon at the Presbyterian church at 2 p.m. with Rev. Layton Jackson officiating, and interment was made in the Calhoun cemetery.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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