Hiram Griese 1879-1957

GRIESE, HAGEBOCK, EVANS, HANSEN, TIERVOLD, TIREVOLD, SCHNIEDER, KNAPP, BENTON, HARNESS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/28/2014 at 23:41:15

Taken to Hospital
Hiram Griese was taken to the University hospital at Iowa City by plane on Monday morning. Mr. Griese was convalescing at home from major surgery performed at Iowa City a month ago when he suffered a relapse. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, August 15, 1957)

Hiram Griese, 77, Dies at SUI Hospital
Services will be held Monday afternoon for Hiram Griese, 77, longtime resident of Emmet County who died Thursday [September 12, 1957] morning in a University of Iowa hospital.

Mr. Griese was born Oct. 12, 1879 in Ogle County, Illinois and came to Emmet county as a young man to settle on a farm northwest of Dolliver. On Jan. 27, 1909 he was married to Rosa Hagebock and continued to live on the same farm for the following 33 years. The Griesed then moved to a farm north of Halfa where they lived for 12 years until Mr. Griese retired and moved to Dolliver where he had resided for the past four years.

Mr. Griese was a longtime member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Dolliver Methodist Church, and served on the Dolliver School Board, draft board of World War I and as a trustee of Lincoln township.

Survivors are his widow and eight children, Martin of Marin City, Calif.; Mrs. Raymond (Edna) Evans, Estherville; Mrs. Einer (Ina) Hansen, Dolliver; Mrs. Byron (Minnie) Tirevold, Chokio, Minn.; Mrs. Walt (Viola) Hansen, Riceville; Raymond, Goodland, Minn.; Mrs. Wayne (Verna) Schnieder, Ft. Dodge; Mrs. Harold (Laura) Knapp, Dolliver; 25 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are four brothers, Henry, Millbank, S.D.; Ed, Dolliver; John, Fairmont, Minn.; Martin, Burt; and two sisters, Mrs. Claude (Carrie) Benton, Armstrong and Mrs. Lawrence (Annie) Harness, Casselton, N.D. He was preceded in death by his parents, one daughter, Eva, two brothers, George and Claus and one sister, Ida.

Services will be at 2 o’clock Monday at the Dolliver Methodist Church with the Rev. Cloyd Biship officiating. Burial will be in the Armstrong Grove cemetery. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, September 13, 1957)