Christena Elizabeth "Tena" (Schwartzhoff) Sires 1878 - 1974

SIRES, SCHWARTZHOFF, HELMBRECHT, ANDERSON, BEDNAREK, DUENN, CRUSEN, KUMPH, MAHR

Posted By: Errin Wilker (email)
Date: 2/3/2013 at 17:28:12

Mrs. Christena E. Sires, 95, of Prairie du Chien, died Wednesday, July 10, in a local nursing home.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in St. Mary's Catholic Church in Dorchester, Iowa, Rev. F.J. McEnany officiating, and burial will be in th church cemetery. Friends were to call at the Garrity Funeral Home in Prairie du Chien at 3 p.m. Friday, the Rosary to be a 8:30 p.m.

Surviving are two sons, Jerry of Hill City, S.D., and Joseph of Wheeling, Ill.; four daughters, Mrs.. Mary Helmbrecht of Dassel, Minn., Mrs. Eva Anderson of Prairie du Chien, Mrs.. Virginia Bednarek of Waupun, Wis., and Jane Duenn of Arlington Heights, Ill.; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Crusen, Mrs. Agnes Kumph, Mrs. Stacia Mahr, all of California; 35 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.