The only child of Albert and Minnie (Gross) Siefert, he was only a one year old boy when his parents immigrated from Germany to USA (Wisconsin). They arrived at Ellis Island on the ship "Bohemia" on 12 Apr 1891.
He was naturalized a US citizen on 6 Dec. 1915.
Otto enlisted in the US Army in 1917 to fight in World War I.
Otto Siefert was only 28 and unmarried when he died during World War I. He was infected with the deadly second wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish flu) in the trenches as a soldier. He died in a military hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. As the only child, his death was devasting to his parents. He was buried at St. Pauls Lutheran Church cemetery in Tess Corners, Wisconsin.
Otto was the nephew of Edward (Frances) Gross and Hanna (Henry) Lipke; also survived by his cousins Irma and Neoda Gross in Wisconsin as well as cousins Martha Haug, Bertha Lipke, Anna Lorentz, Henry Lipke and Shannon "Ed" Lipke in Pennsylvania.
He was naturalized a US citizen on 6 Dec. 1915.
Otto enlisted in the US Army in 1917 to fight in World War I.
Otto Siefert was only 28 and unmarried when he died during World War I. He was infected with the deadly second wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish flu) in the trenches as a soldier. He died in a military hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. As the only child, his death was devasting to his parents. He was buried at St. Pauls Lutheran Church cemetery in Tess Corners, Wisconsin.
Otto was the nephew of Edward (Frances) Gross and Hanna (Henry) Lipke; also survived by his cousins Irma and Neoda Gross in Wisconsin as well as cousins Martha Haug, Bertha Lipke, Anna Lorentz, Henry Lipke and Shannon "Ed" Lipke in Pennsylvania.
The only child of Albert and Minnie (Gross) Siefert, he was only a one year old boy when his parents immigrated from Germany to USA (Wisconsin). They arrived at Ellis Island on the ship "Bohemia" on 12 Apr 1891.
He was naturalized a US citizen on 6 Dec. 1915.
Otto enlisted in the US Army in 1917 to fight in World War I.
Otto Siefert was only 28 and unmarried when he died during World War I. He was infected with the deadly second wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish flu) in the trenches as a soldier. He died in a military hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. As the only child, his death was devasting to his parents. He was buried at St. Pauls Lutheran Church cemetery in Tess Corners, Wisconsin.
Otto was the nephew of Edward (Frances) Gross and Hanna (Henry) Lipke; also survived by his cousins Irma and Neoda Gross in Wisconsin as well as cousins Martha Haug, Bertha Lipke, Anna Lorentz, Henry Lipke and Shannon "Ed" Lipke in Pennsylvania.
He was naturalized a US citizen on 6 Dec. 1915.
Otto enlisted in the US Army in 1917 to fight in World War I.
Otto Siefert was only 28 and unmarried when he died during World War I. He was infected with the deadly second wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish flu) in the trenches as a soldier. He died in a military hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. As the only child, his death was devasting to his parents. He was buried at St. Pauls Lutheran Church cemetery in Tess Corners, Wisconsin.
Otto was the nephew of Edward (Frances) Gross and Hanna (Henry) Lipke; also survived by his cousins Irma and Neoda Gross in Wisconsin as well as cousins Martha Haug, Bertha Lipke, Anna Lorentz, Henry Lipke and Shannon "Ed" Lipke in Pennsylvania.
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