Elmer John Sieren

KEOTA - Elmer John Sieren, 89, of Keota, died Sunday, May 25, 2008, in Maplewood Manor in Keota following a short illness.

      Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 28, in the Holy Trinity Parish, St. Mary's Church in Keota with the Rev. Charles Fladung officiating. Burial will be in St. Elizabeth Cemetery in Harper. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today with a Christian Wake Service at 7 p.m. in the Powell Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Keota. A general memorial fund has been established.

      Mr. Sieren was born June 14, 1918, near Clear Creek, the son of Michael and Margaret (Greiner) Sieren. He married Bernadine Mary Beinhart on Aug. 20, 1940, in St. Mary Catholic Church in Harper.

For the full obituary, see the May 27 edition of The Washington Evening Journal