Dale Glenn Sievers, Jr.

BornSept 16, 1943
DiedSept 18, 1967
Service BranchArmy
RankPrivate First Class
Rating or Job 
Unit 
CampaignViet Nam
Military Citations 
Honors 
Family 
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Pfc. Dale Glenn Sievers Jr.

Sept 16, 1943-Sept 18, 1967

Chico

Dale Sievers was born in Eureka and grew up Orland. After graduating in 1961 from Orland High School, he moved to Chico and worked for Valley Irrigation of Glenn County. When Sievers joined the Army in 1965. he had a wife and two children.

He was sent to Vietnam on Feb. I, 1967. In September of the same year, near Quan the 23-year-old father was blown up by a Claymore mine.

He survived the blast and was sent to an Army hospital in Vietnam. Relatives were told the young man would survive.

Sievers, however, succumbed to the numerous sharapnel wounds on Sept. 18, 1967, two days after his 24th birthday.

Chico News & Review, May 26, 1988

 

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Chico News & Review

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