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Alice Catherine (Mescher) Althoff (2006)

ALTHOFF, EIVINS, HOGAN, KOOPMANN, KRAMER, MESCHER, NELSON, PHILLIPS, SCHMIDT, SOAT, VOSS

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 6/17/2006 at 21:19:45

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

ALICE ALTHOFF, Guttenberg

Alice Catherine Althoff, 81, of Guttenberg died June 6, 2006, at Guttenberg Municipal Hospital.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Friday, June 9, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Guttenberg with the Rev. Marvin Bries as the celebrant. Burial was at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Guttenberg.

Alice Althoff was born March 11, 1925, in New Vienna to Henry and Matilda (Koopmann) Mescher. She received her education from St. Francis Xavier Catholic School in Dyersville. On Feb. 12, 1947, she was united in marriage to Sylvester W. Althoff at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Dyersville. Alice, a homemaker, also helped her husband farm. She was an active church member and sang in the church choir for many years.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a granddaughter, Jennifer Voss; two sisters, Marie Kramer and Viola Mescher; and three brothers, Harold Mescher, Bill Mescher and Clarence “C.J.” Mescher.

She is survived by eight sons, John Althoff of Luxemburg, Paul Althoff of Minneapolis, Minn., Mark Althoff of Manassas, Va., Joe Althoff of Guttenberg, Dan Althoff and Marvin Althoff, both of Colesburg, and David Althoff and Bill Althoff, both of Edgewood; four daughters, Ruth Eivins of Macksburg, Jean Soat of East Dubuque, Ill., Mary Hogan of Monticello, and Theresa Schmidt of Dyersville; two sisters, Armella Phillips of Cooperstown, N.Y., and Rosemary Nelson of Salmon, Idaho; six brothers, Gilbert Mescher of Farley, Bob Mescher of Strawberry Point, David Mescher of Monticello, and Louis Mescher, Fritz Mescher and Dick Mescher, all of Dyersville; and 33 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

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