Maxine Sievers

MAXINE SIEVERS

Cedar Rapids

Maxine (Mickey) Sievers, 91, passed away peacefully Sunday, July 5, 2015, at The Woodlands in Cedar Rapids. Funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 11, at St. Matthew's Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids. Father David Beckman will officiate at the service. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home with a Scripture service starting at 3:30 p.m. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Mount Vernon Cemetery.

To honor her memory: Beverly (Don) Wilder of Marshalltown, Thomas (Hideyo) Sievers of Alameda, Calif., Donald Sievers of Wading River, N.Y., James (Christine) Sievers of Cedar Rapids, Robert Sievers of Klamath Falls, Ore., Kathryn (Brian) King of Florence, Ky., and Gary (Robin) Sievers of Cedar Rapids; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and siblings, Opal Luerkens, Ruth Gamble, Verna Schultz, Arlo Kirkpatrick and Dean Kirkpatrick

Mickey was the fifth child born to Ray and Carol Stockton Kirkpatrick on July 27, 1923, on a farm north of Mount Vernon. The family moved to Anamosa for her senior year. She graduated in 1941. She frequently returned to Lisbon for her class reunions. On Sept. 27, 1941, she eloped with Eugene (Gene) Sievers. Seven children blessed this union. They divorced in 1980.

Mickey enjoyed decorating cakes and used her talents for the Hiawatha Elementary School, St. Luke's Hospital and family events. She liked to dance and enjoyed friends at both Hiawatha and Marion Senior Citizen Centers weekly. She volunteered many hours, making over 100 prayer shawls for both the Mercy Hospice House and St. Matthew's ministries.

She was a member of St. Matthew's Catholic Church, Cedar Rapids Bowler and St. Matthew's prayer shawl ministry, P.W.P., Nifty Nine and St. Monica's Circle.

Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Mercy in her name.