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EARL H. SIEVERS
   At Youngstown, Fla., near Panama City, Carl H. Sievers, 32, his wife Margaret, 28, and their dour-year-old daughter, Cherie, were hospitalized with bruises and abrasions received ib a freak tornado that demolished their small home. [The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, FL, Tuesday, January 29, 1952, page 1]

Grave marker for Earl H. Sievers in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Des Moines (Polk county), Iowa.

Earl enlisted in the army at Camp Dodge, Herrold, IA on 8 March 1945.

Pvt Sievers was transferred from 82nd Airborne Division to Company F, 508th PIR on 15 October 1945.

He was discharged on 19 April 1946.

Earl submitted this application for the Iowa WWII Veterans Bonus pm 2 May 1949.  It reveals that he began his service with Company B, 80th Tank Battalion and had served with the 504th PIR before arriving in the 598th,

EARL H. SIEVERS
   Services for Earl Henry Sievers, 52, off 2503 S.E. Eight St., will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Hamilton's Funeral Home, with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
   Mr. Sievers was killed in an auto accident near Versailles, Mo.
   A truck driver for Admiral Merchants Motor Freight, Inc., Mr. Sievers was born in Sigourney and had lived in des Moines 21 years.  He was a member of Teamsters Union Locxal 147, Antique Airplane association and Experimental Airplane Association.
   He s survived by his wife, Margaret; two daughters, Mrs. Cherie wads worth and Mrs.. Georgia Patterson, both of Des Moines; two brothers, Arthur of Junction City, Kan. and Irvin of Richland, Ia.; three sisters, Mrs. Shirley List of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs Betty soll of Leon and Mrs. Jeanne Tygart of Hayesville, Ia., and three grandchildren.
 

[The Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, IA, Tuesday, October 29, 19742, page 21]

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