OBITUARY: Alyce Halvorson Nelson, 1903-2003, Worth County, Iowa

[ The Northwood Anchor online -- January 14, 2003 ]


                            Alyce Nelson

Funeral service for Alyce Nelson, 99, of Lake Mills, were held Thursday,
at Sion Lutheran Church, rural Lake Mills, with the Rev. Tom Hagen
officiating.  Burial was at Bristol Cemetery, rural Joice.

Alyce C. Nelson died Jan. 6, 2003 at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in
Mason City, IA following a brief illness with pneumonia and a fractured
hip earlier in the day.

Alyce C. Nelson was born in Bristol Township, Worth County, IA to
Christian and Anna (Halstenson) Brevig Halvorson on Jan. 21, 1903 and
lived almost the entire century within 15 miles of her birthplace.
She married Nels H. Nelson on June 28, 1922, and had two sons, VeRone
and Dennis. Nels and Alyce farmed near Joice until Nels's death in 1958.
She remained on the family farm until Dennis's death in 1995, moving to
Maple Court in Northwood in 1996, and to the Lake Mills Care Center
in 2000.  

Alyce worked for several years as a cook in the Joice Public School. She
was a life-long active member at Bristol Lutheran Church until its closing
when she transferred her membership to Sion Lutheran Church.  Shewas a devoted mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to her family. 

Survivors include son VeRone and wife Bonnie Nelson, El Dorado Springs, MO;
daughter-in-law Fern Nelson and granddaughter, Doreen and husband
Jim Carter, all of Woodbury, MN; granddaughter Deb and husband Jim Scholten
of Sioux city, IA; great-grandchildren Jessica and husband Ryan McIntosh,
J.D. Scholten, and Caroline Carter; sister, Ruth Peterson, Northwood, and
sisters-in-law Betty Halvorson Colby and Mavis Halvorson Olson.  

Alyce was preceded in death by her husband Nels; son Dennis; granddaughter,
Durene; her parents; brothers Henry, Almer, Inghart, Clarence, Arnold and
Joe Halvorson.




Copyright (c) 2003 by Kermit Kittleson
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