OBITUARY: Alice Snowbeck, 1912-1997, Stacyville, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; July 21, 1997]


                           

                           Alice Snowbeck

Alice Snowbeck, age 85, of Burr Oak Manor, Austin, Minnesota, died on
Saturday, July 19, [1997] at the Austin Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, July 23, at Westminster
Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Andrew Lindahl officiating. Burial
will be in the Union Presbyterian Cemetery, rural Stacyville, Iowa.

Alice was born on May 2, 1912, in Johnsburg, Minn., to George and Elizabeth
(Fischer) Ziegler. At an early age, Alice moved with her family to a farm
northwest of Stacyville where she attended school. She married George
Snowbeck on Aug. 12, 1942, in Albert Lea. They lived in California during
World War II and moved back to the Stacyville area until 1959 when Alice
and George moved to Lyle, Minn. Alice moved to Burr Oak Manor in January
of 1996.

Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Dona Ziegler of
Lyle, Minn.; three grandchildren and their spouses, Darwin and Kathy Ziegler
of Kasson, Minn., Randy and Kathy Ziegler of London, Minn., and Gary and
Cindy Ziegler of Lyle, Minn.; six great-grandchildren, Trenton, Mary, Cory,
Colleen, Megan and Sarah; and one sister, Ruth Becker of California.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, an infant
granddaughter, three brothers, Carl, Earl and Floyd, and a sister, Myrtle
Weber.

The Worlein Funeral Home, 1801 Fourth St. N.W., Austin, Minnesota, is in
charge of arrangements.




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