Der­vin C. "Rocky" Rocksvold

ROCKSVOLD, BERG, SIRES, CRAWFORD

Posted By: Errin Wilker (email)
Date: 11/13/2006 at 13:39:18

Source: Newspaper Clipping
Submitted By: Errin (Lee) Wilker, cousin of deceased

Der­vin C. "Rocky" Rocksvold, 65, of Prairie du Chien, died Sunday, April 21, 1985, in Methodist Hospital, Rochester, Minn.

He was born on April 16, 1920, in Iowa to Peter and Ida (Berg) Rocks­vold. He married Goldie Sires on Jan. 29, 1954, in Rochester, Minn.

Rocksvold was a World War II veteran.

He had been a salesman for Bark River Culvert and Equipment Co.

Survivors are his wife; a son, Tom of Prairie du Chien; three grandchil­dren; and a sister, Iona Crawford of Franklin, Iowa.

Services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. in St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Prairie du Chien. The Rev. Gary Grindeland will officiate. Burial will be in English Bench Cemetery, rural Dorchester, Iowa.

Friends may call at the Garrity Fu­neral Home, Prairie du Chien, today after 4 p.m., and at the church on Wednesday from 10:15 a.m. until the
services.