SIRES, Silvia M. (Pagitz) 1929 - 2019

SIRES, PAGITZ

Posted By: Cindy Maust Smith (email)
Date: 9/22/2020 at 10:20:26

The Standard Newspaper, December 30, 2019, Waukon, Iowa

Silvia M. (Pagitz) Sires passed away at Northgate Care Center in Waukon Sunday, December 22, 2019. She was born January 11, 1929 in Yugoslavia in south central Europe. During the war as a young child, she fled to Salzburg, Austria.

As a young lady she worked in a department store. She met an American soldier in 1950, fell in love and married Sardius Sires February 7, 1952. They had one daughter, Valerie, who was born July 20, 1953 and passed away November 13, 1976.

Silvia was a beautiful painter, made some of her own clothes and loved to cook. She moved to Waukon in 2001 from Newport, OR after her husband passed away in 2001. She lost her brother, Hansi, in 2011.

She is survived by a sister, Gertrude, of London, England and many nieces and nephews.