Willy Albert Siever

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Emma Siever in her wedding dress and Willy Siever in his wedding suit.

Willy Siever was born on 21 June 1884 in Hamburg, Germany, to the parents Heinrich Ernst Siever and Johanne Dorothee Sophie Friederike Laudahn. He was christened in the Lutheran church on 09 August 1885 in Hamburg.

On April Fools Day of 1911, at the age of 27, Willy married a 22-year-old seamstress named Emma Caroline Fahrenkrog, daughter of Gustav Heinrich Friedrich Fahrenkrog and Wilhelmine Caroline Ottilie Schröder. At the time, Willy was employed as a bookkeeper.

For their honeymoon, Willy and Emma travelled to Canada where they decided to homestead. Their first year was spent in Herbert, Saskatchewan, but their 320 acre homestead was located at NW 33 12 9 W 3, near Hallonquist, 15 miles from Herbert. On 28 Jul 1939, Willy Siever obtained his Canadian citizenship.

Emma and Willy Siever standing in front of their homestead house.

In 1945, Willy left the homestead in the care of his son Walter. Willy went to British Columbia where he worked as a caretaker in the Anglican and United Churches until was sixty-five. At the age of 75, he moved to Edmonton to stay with his youngest son Alvin until he passed away on 14 Aug 1961 at the age of 77.

He was buried four days later in the Burton Cemetery at Vanguard, Saskatchewan.

Willy and Emma had five sons (Herbert, Walter, Werner, Erwin and Alvin) and one daughter (Helen). Willy was 5 ft 6 in. tall and had brown eyes. He had a birthmark on the left side of his neck.

All Sievers in Canada are descended from Willy and Emma.

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