SPEAKER, Alice, Delana

SPEAKER, JORDAN, WHITNEY, BALES, MOLENCAMP, THOMSEN

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/4/2013 at 00:20:58

Alice Delana Speakar, 90, 302 2nd NE, Mason City, Iowa, died Sunday, Aug. 17,
2003, at the Good Shepherd Care Center. A funeral service will be held
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2003, 1:30 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, 112 N. 4th St.,
Clear Lake, with the Rev. Derik Yarian officiating. Interment will be held at
Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. Memorials may be given to the Alice Speakar
Memorial Fund.

Alice was born March 4, 1913 in Waverly, Iowa, the daughter of Charles L. and
Etta Mae (Jordon) Whitney. She graduated from Mason City High School. Alice
married Alexander Speakar July 24, 1932 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Mason
City. She worked at Decker's Packing Plant. They moved to Clear Lake where they
owned and operated Oakwood Grocery Store until 1961. She also worked at
Halford's Café and later operated the Lake Café. She worked at Jensen's Grocery
and Easter's Grocery Stores.

Alice and Alex enjoyed spending their winters in Harlingen, Texas with relatives
and friends. They also enjoyed dancing at the Surf in their younger years. Her
hobbies were crocheting and gardening. She enjoyed the humor of Red Skelton and
Johnny Carson. First in her life she was a Christian and a member of Zion
Lutheran Church, Clear Lake.

Alice is survived by four children, Joan Bales and her husband, Ken, Mason City,
Sonia Molencamp and her husband, Larry, Muscatine, Iowa, Robert Speakar and his
wife, Aletha, Clear Lake, and Kathleen Thomsen and her husband, Eric, Muscatine,
Iowa; eight grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
Alice was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Alexander, on May 29,
1997; two brothers, Marion and Russell Whitney; one sister, Vivan Loeckle; and
one grandson, Brad Bales.