Harold C. Sivesind - 1900-1988

SIVESIND, NASH, FUNK, HERMAN, SHIPP, BENTZEN, MOE

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 1/29/2011 at 21:02:49

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa, WAUKON REPUBLICAN STANDARD June 7, 1988
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 31 in Bakersfield, California for Harold C. Sivesind, age 87, who died Wednesday, May 25, 1988 in Bakersfield. Services were held June 3 at 2 p.m. at Hanson Funeral Home in Waukon, Iowa. The Rev. Lynn Groe officiated at the services with burial in Oakland Cemetery. Casket bearers were Gene, Gordon, and Frank Sivesind, Charles Snitker, Harlan Herman, and Robert Anderson. Honorary pallbearer was Raymond Moe.

Harold was born November 4, 1900 in Winneshiek County, Iowa to Claus and Gina (Nash) Sivesind. He attended rural schools and Waukon High School. On August 12, 1928 he married Josephine "Jackie" Funk in Waukon, Iowa. He was a retired custodian of Allamakee Community School District and was a member of Vasa Club, Lutheran Brotherhood, St. John's Lutheran Church in Waukon and Grace Lutheran Church in Bakersfield, California.

He was preceded in death by four sisters, Alma Herman, Agnes Shipp, Ruth Bentzen, and Norma Moe, and a brother Carl Sivesind.

Surviving are his wife, Jackie; 4 sons, Donald, Gerald, and Robert Sivesind, all of Bakersfield, California and Kenneth Sivesind of Oelwein, Iowa; 16 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.