SIEBERS, Lawrence Henry Bernard^{[1, 2]}

1902 - 1987  (85 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	SIEBERS, Lawrence Henry Bernard
  Birth	11 Aug 1902	Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States
  Christening	14 Aug 1902	Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States
  Gender	Male
  WAC	28 Jan 1978	SLAKE
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	15 Nov 1987	Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States
  Burial	Tooele Cemetery, Tooele, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I50735	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	SMITH, Johann Heggie ,   b. 27 Oct 1907, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotlandd. 18 Sep 2003, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	8 Jun 1931	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Children	+ 1. SIEBERS, Lawrence Henry ,   b. 26 May 1933, Lincoln, Tooele, Utah, United States Lincoln, Tooele, Utah, United Statesd. 2001 (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F21285	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  BIOGRAPHY: Biography of Lawrence Henry Bernard Siebers By Johann Heggie Smith Siebers BIOGRAPHY: Lawrence Henry Bernard Siebers was born in Quincy, Illinois to Bernard Siebers and Elizabeth Anna Oenning on August 10th. 1902. He grew up in Quincy. His family was German Catholic and he attended St.John's Parochial School and Notre Dame High School. The education was rigorous and he developed beautiful penmanship, spoke grammatically and was good at math. He attempted to enlist in the army, at age 16, to fight in WW I. However, they were not accepting 16 year olds so he took a machinist apprenticeship with Otis Elevator Company. He later completed his high school work through the International Correspondence School. He completed his apprenticeship in 1922 and traveled to Denver, Colorado where he worked in various machine shops to obtain his journeyman card. He returned to Quincy after one year but became restless to again return to the west. He traveled to Spokane, Washington where he worked for a period as an auto mechanic. He moved to Salt Lake City in 1925. He had a sister who lived in this city. She suffered from tuberculosis and had been advised to move to a drier climate. He worked at the Magee & Perry Machine Shop in Salt Lake City. Ed Cudahey, Master Mechanic, at the International Smelting & Refining Company in Tooele, Utah, contacted his friend, the owner of Magee & Perry to see if they could loan him a machinist for a month. This was January 1926 and Larry never did go back. He worked at the Smelter for 43 years. He began working as a machinist and then was promoted to positions of Outside Foreman, Shop Foreman, Assistant Master Mechanic and for the last 10 years of his career he was the Master Mechanic (Superintendent). The Master Mechanic had responsibility for the maintenance of all of the Smelter's operations and as such managed all of the trades. He retired in 1969 at age 67. The last few years were particularly trying because the Smelter was going through hard times and closed shortly after Larry's retirement. Until the closure, he had to keep things operating on an austere budget. He lost only 10 months of work during his 43 years at the Smelter. The longest period was a result of the Great Depression in 1931. During this layoff, he worked as a mechanic on the construction of the Veterans Hospital and the Main Post Office in Salt Lake City. When the Smelter began to recall layed off employees, first priority went to those who were married. Ed Cudahey called Robert Smith and asked him if Larry was serious about Robert's daughter, Ann, who Larry had dated. The reply was in the affirmative and Cudahey said if the two got married, he could recall Larry to work. When contacted, Larry was working in Nevada on what was then called the Boulder Dam, later the Hoover Dam. The marriage took place on 8 June 1932 in the Salt Lake City & County building. Larry and Ann initially lived with her parents. They bought a home in 1935 in Tooele at 397 No. 1st. East St. It was part of one of the three Smelter sub-divisions built in Tooele. The Company withheld 10% of his pay until the house was paid for. This took 5 years. They remained in this home for the rest of his life. They reared three children in this home. The children were Lawrence (Larry), JoAnn, and Robert (Bob). There was a strike in 1936 and Larry was sent by the Smelter to work in a smelter in McGill Nevada for the duration of the strike. He also lost time due to one other strike. He had little sympathy for unions. During the WW II years he worked the second shift as a Foreman. He felt this was lost time with his family and regretted it. He loved the outdoors and was an avid fisherman and hunter. When the children were on their own, Larry and Ann bought a pick-up, boat and camper that they used for numerous fishing trips. In his young years, Larry played baseball and was a member of the Tooele Wildcats in the Catholic League. He also loved to bowl and bowled on the Smelter teams for years. Post retirement he was a member of an old timers team. All were 80 or over. He also took up golf after retirement. He also liked to garden and he expanded and completely remodeled their home. When his two sons were in the scouting program, he was a member of the Ward Scouting Committee, arranged for transportation to scout camp, and camped with the boys. He also coached the Ward Softball team. He supported his wife, Ann, in the girl's program at Church and would transport the girl's to camp. Following his retirement, he and Ann made three trips to Europe visiting mostly in Scotland and Northern Germany walking where their ancestors had walked. They also traveled extensively throughout the United States including Hawaii to visit family and friends. He and Ann met with a group of twenty-five friends in 1971 in the Tooele County Court House and organized the Tooele Senior Citizen Club. They were active in securing the Senior Citizen's Center and Larry was instrumental in remodeling the building. He served as Treasurer of the Center for 14 years. He also belonged to the Tooele Garden Club and the Tooele County Historical Society. His son, Bob baptized him into the LDS Church, in October 1976. He was ordained a High Priest and served as a Counselor in the High Priest Quorum for 8 years. Larry and Ann were called to work in the West Jordan Temple and did so once a week. Larry suffered a stroke on Friday evening November 13 1987 after returning from working in the Temple that day. He never regained consciousness and he passed away peacefully on Sunday morning November 15, 1987 at age 85. Siebers Name Meaning North German: patronymic from the personal name Siebert. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press Sieber Name Meaning occupational name for a sieve maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German sib ‘sieve’.possibly a variant of Siebert. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

  
  

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  [S101] GEDCOM file imported on 18 Oct 2001. [S103] GEDCOM file imported on 23 Sep 2002.