Obit: Sieg, Dorothy Gertrude (1912 – 2009)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

E-mail: eldolken@potc.net

Surnames: Sieg, Lightfoot, Durst, Simcox, Londre, Newell, Bakken, Sauer, Wetmore, Scholze, Marg, Schutte, Kurasz, Buchholz

---Source: Banner Journal (Black River Falls, Jackson Co., WI.) January 6, 2010

---Sieg, Dorothy Gertrude (8 November 1912 – 28 December 2009)

Dorothy Sieg, 97, formerly of Fairchild, passed away Monday evening, Dec. 28, 2009, at the Family Heritage Care Center in Black River Falls.

The former Dorothy Gertrude Durst was born Nov. 8, 1912, in Fairchild, daughter of Roy and Janie (Lightfoot) Durst.  She attended Cotton and Lone Pine Country Schools and graduated from Fairchild High School in 1930.

She was united in marriage to Rolla Sieg Dec. 3, 1933, at the Evangelical United Brethren Church of Augusta.  The couple farmed in rural Osseo before purchasing their farm in April of 1945 in Fairchild.

Dorothy was a very active member and held offices in many of the village organizations.  She was a member of the United Methodist Church and its Women’s Society, Fairview Homemakers and later the Jackson County Homemakers Club for over 70 years, the Fairchild American Legion Auxiliary over 50 years, a charter member of the Fairchild AARP Chapter and the Eastern Star, most recently a member of the Everett Chapter #95 Eastern Star of Marshfield.

She was also very interested in quilting, sewing, knitting and crocheting. She loved her children and grandchildren very much and tried doing as much for them as she possibly could.

Shortly after Dorothy’s 90^th birthday, she entered Family Heritage Assisted Living in Black River Falls and later transferred into the Family Heritage Nursing Home.

She will be deeply missed by her three children, Bernard and his wife Joy Sieg of Humbird, Richard and his wife, Yvonne Sieg of Marana, AZ, and daughter Paulette Simcox of Faribault, MN; nine grandchildren, Laura (Jesse) Londre, Gary (Chamena) Sieg, Scott Sieg, Jill (Virgil) Newell, Jeffrey (Dorothea) Sieg, Pam (Jeff) Bakken, Patty Simcox (Sharon Sauer), Peggy Wetmore and Terry (Kathy) Simcox; 10 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren; six siblings: Leone Scholze and Betty Marg, both of Black River Falls; Vivian Schutte and Ivan Durst, both of Neillsville, Raymond Durst of Fairchild and Ella Jean Scholze of Rudolph.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Rolla, Nov. 4, 1997; siblings: Virgil, Neil and James Durst, Ethel Schutte and Eva Kurasz; and a daughter, Darlene who was born June 5, 1944, and died later that year, Oct. 4, 1944.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010, at 11 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Fairchild with Pastor Jim Buchholz officiating.  Burial was in the Thompson Valley Cemetery, rural Augusta.  A visitation was held Friday at the Anderson Funeral Home in Augusta.