Peter Siem

Departure August 17, 1918, at Hoboken, New Jersey, on the U.S.S. America (ID-3006)
Departure June 19, 1919 at Brest, France
Arrival New York on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam
Rank Private First Class
Service Number 490123
Branch Company C, 34th Infantry, US Army

In Memory of PETER A. SIEM

Wife: Elsie
Born July 26, 1891 near Manning, Iowa
Entered Into Rest May 19, 1957
Age 65 years, 9 months, 23 days
Services Held At Zion Lutheran Church Manning Wednesday, May 22, 1957, 2 P.M.
Clergyman Rev. George Eschenbacher Pastor Zion Lutheran Church
Interment Manning Cemetery
Pallbearers: Ed Knaack, John Weible, Vertus Vollstedt, Donald Beck, Marvin Wiemann, Ross Graner

BECOME SOLDIERS
The Monitor May 16, 1918
Willie Sinow and Pete Siem left this week to take up their training to become soldiers for Uncle Sam.

PETER A. SIEM, who died Sunday afternoon en route to St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll. The Rev. George Eschenbacher will officiate. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery.
The body is resting at the Ohde Funeral Home here until the time of the church rites. Mr. Siem, a barber by trade, was born July 26, 1891, near Manning. His parents, Henry and Anna Boyens Siem, are deceased.
He was a baby when the family moved to Clinton, returning from there to Aspinwall later.

Mr. Siem was married to Elsia Mohr at Manning in 1919. Surviving with his wife are one son, Lester Siem, Kokomo, Indiana; two daughters, Mrs. LeRoy (Geraldine) Joens, Omaha, and Mrs. Norman (Patricia) Gosch, Valparaiso, Indiana; four grandchildren; five sisters and two brothers, some residing in California and the others in eastern Iowa.

A veteran of World War I, Mr. Siem was overseas for 13 months. Mr. Siem was confirmed in the Lutheran faith May 25, 1945. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church.
He collapsed while mowing his lawn Sunday afternoon and died while being taken to the Carroll hospital in an ambulance.