Sievers, John Henry (1863-1937)

SIEVERS, HOBERMANN, SCHRAMM, LOLLMANN, EHLERS, STEER, BUCKENDAHL

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 8/16/2014 at 13:36:43

John Henry Sievers
December 13, 1863 – [July 12, 1937]

HENRY SIEVERS OF NEWELL IS LAID to REST

Henry Sievers passed away at his home in Newell Sunday afternoon. He was 73 years, 6 months and 29 days of age.

John Henry Sievers was born December 13, 1863, at Hanover, Germany, to John Henry Sievers and Dorothea Hobermann. He was baptized on December 20, 1863, by Pastor Herman Krug. At the age of 5 years, he came with his parents to America, settling near Chicago at Proviso, Illinois. While there, he attended the Christian day school of his church. He was confirmed in the faith of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Missouri Synod by Pastor John Strieter in 1877. Not long afterwards, when he was 14, his parents came to Buena Vista County and settled in Grant Township. Here, he made his home where hard work and the blessings of God brought him success.

On the 26th of May, 1889, the late Mr. Sievers married Miss Emma Schramm, Pastor Traub of Crozier, Grant Township, officiating. Seven children blessed this union: Albert and Paul of Newell, Mrs. John Lollmann, of Storm Lake, and the Misses Laura, Esther, and Erna, of Newell. One son, Carl, passed to his eternal home at the age of four.

After the untimely passing of his wife in 1918, Mr. Sievers moved to Newell in the spring of 1919 and established a home where he spent the remaining years of his life.

He served as the president of the First National Bank for approximately eight years and as president of Zion Lutheran Church in Grant Township for many years.

Those who survive are the members of his immediate family, 13 grandchildren, two having passed on in infancy; three brothers, August, John, and Will H. Sievers, of Storm Lake; three sisters, Mrs. Carl Ehlers, Mrs. Henry Steer, and Mrs. August Buckendahl, and a host of friends. One sister preceded him in death.

Funeral services were held from the home and at 2:00 o'clock from the English Lutheran Church on Wednesday afternoon in charge of Rev. Paul G. Stephan.

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