In Loving Memory

George Seibel Junior was born at home to George and Rose Seibel on 1 Sept. 1934. This house still stands at the NE corner of Mound City. He was the middle child of thirteen children. He spent his growing up years in the Herried/Mound City area and attended the Pudwill school for eight years. He loved to draw and was very adept at math and won several school and county contests. He was always busy helping on the family farm and even into adulthood he stayed and looked after his parents until their passing. A favorite past-time of all the siblings was playing in the snow and building tunnels in the hay loft and straw piles. Their big event was staging a rodeo and riding range cattle, but George didn't ride; he was the gate man.

George's dream was to custom combine and work the harvest run he set a goal for 25 years that was cut short to 23 when he had heart surgery at the age 50. During the off season George busied himself by driving school bus and helping the local veterinarian. After he quit the harvest run, he settled into occasional custom harvest work in the area and for 15 years raised cattle and cash cropped small grain on the Rodenburg farm. When the Herreid Livestock Market came into being, George worked for them part-time and this continued off and on for 25 years. George said he always liked working around critters.

He married Lorrie Lee Olson on 24 June 1995 in Mound City and continued to farm as well as help cook at their restaurant Calico's Steakhouse where he became famous for his kase knoepfla (cheese buttons). George retired from farming/ranching around 2000 and in addition to handling increased demand for George's Famous Cheese Buttons, he worked planting trees for the Campbell County Conservation District and mowing ditches for the county.

Some of his other activities included: the Mound City Lions Club, Campbell County Wildlife Club, Mound City Volunteer Firemen. Some hobbies were: playing pinochle, coin collecting, collecting caps and pens with advertising and calendar plates, watching old western movies, listening to country and blue grass music, tending to his fruit trees and his baby trees, playing and walking with his dog, Daisy. George passed peacefully out of this life and into the next in his sleep at his home on 9 February 2007.

George's dream and tradition regarding his George's Famous line of products is carried on this day by loving friends and family.