Calvin Daniel Sires 1913 - 1976

SIRES, HAHN, OLAFSON, GRIFFIN, BRITAIN, KANNENBERG, ROSENDAHL

Posted By: Errin Wilker (email)
Date: 1/15/2013 at 20:24:32

Funeral services were held Thursday, May 20 and Potter-Haugen funeral home in Caledonia, MN for Calvin Daniel Sires of Howe, IN. The Rev. Lyle Davis of Waukon's Seventh-Day Adventist church officiated and interment was in Evergreen Cemetery in Caledonia.

He died Saturday, May 15 in Howe.

He was born August 19, 19193 to Daniel and Anna Bell Hahn Sires in Dorchester. He lived in the Dorchester area and farmed near Caledonia. He married Pernilla Olafson, who preceded him in death Feb. 13, 1963. He moved to Michigan in 1965. He married Agnes Griffin of Mishawaka, IN Aug. 27, 1966. She survives with two stepsons and two stepdaughters.

Also surviving are two brothers, Robert of Cassopolis, MI and William of Spring Grove, MN, four sisters, Gladys of Waukon, Mrs. Otis (Lorraine) Britain of Dorchester, Mrs. William (Roberta) Kannenberg of Cassopolis and Mrs. Norman (Alpha) Rosendahl of Waukon.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, his parents and a sister, Mrs. Bennie Rosendahl.

Pallbearers were John Kannenberg, Norval Britain, Truman Omodt, Gary Songer, Garon Blunt and Daniel Britain.

Source: Waukon Democrat, Waukon, IA, 20 May 1976