Daniel "Dan" Sires 1891 - 1971

SIRES, BURROUGHS, HAHN, BRITAIN, ROSENDAHL, KANNENBERG

Posted By: Errin Wilker (email)
Date: 2/5/2007 at 15:03:49

Funeral services were held Sunday, June 13, at 2 p.m. from Potter-Haugen Funeral Home, Caledonia, Minn., for Dan Sires, New Albin, who passed away Thursday at St. Francis Hospital in La Crosse, Wisc. Pastor Terry Royer officiated and burial was in the English Bench cemetery.

Daniel Sires was born August 18, 1891 in Allamakee County and was a son of John and Katherine (Burroughs) Sires.

He married Anna Bell Hahn in Waukon, she having passed away August 10, 1964.

He was a farmer and following his retirement, had been a painter for the past 15 years.

Survivors are five daughters and three sons, Mrs. Otis (Lorraine) Britain and Mrs. Bennie (Lois) Rosendahl, both of Dorchester; Mrs. William (Roberta) Kannenberg of Cassopolis, Mich.; Mrs. Norman (Alpha) Rosendahl of Waukon; and Gladys at home; Calvin of Howe, Ind.; Robert of Houghton, Mich.; and William of Spring Grove, Minn.; one brother, Roy Sires of Hawkeye, Ia.; 22 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, three grandchildren, seven brothers and one sister.

Mr. Sires was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of La Crosse, Wisc.

Pallbearers were Lee Rosendahl, Norval and Daniel Britain, Garon Blunt, Herschel Shepard and Gordon Vongroven.

Source: Allamakee Journal, Lansing, Iowa, 16 June 1971
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