Sidney WASEM

WASEM, DERSCHEID, GRIGGS, BOICE, HOUGHTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/30/2009 at 19:59:18

2 January 1886 -- 26 November 1956

SIDNEY WASEM DIES MONDAY AT DESMET

Sidney Wasem, 70, died Monday morning Nov 26 at the Memorial Hospital in DeSmet [South Dakota] following a short illness. Wasem, born in 1886, Fort Dodge, IA, to Minnie [Derscheid] and George Wasem, came to South Dakota when a small boy and spent the rest of his life in Osceola and surrounding communities. He was never married. Survivors include two nieces, Mrs Doris Griggs, Alpena, and Mrs Ione Boice, Eugene, OR, and one step brother, Marcus Houghton. He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother Albert, and one step brother, Merle Houghton. Wasem was a member of the Methodist Church, the REA band and the Masonic Lodge in Iroquois. Funeral arrangements, in charge of the Hoevet Funeral Home, Iroquois, are incomplete.