SNOWBECK, Alice 1912-1997

SNOWBECK, FISCHER, ZIEGLER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/10/2009 at 22:18:03

Alice Snowbeck

AUSTIN, MINNESOTA _ Alice Snowbeck, 85, of Burr Oak Manor, died Saturday (July 19, 1997) at the Austin Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Westminster Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Andrew Lindahl officiating. Burial will be in the Union Presbyterian Cemetery, rural Stacyville, [Mitchell county,] Iowa.

Friends may call at the Worlein Funeral Home, 1801 Fourth St. N.W., from 4 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and one hour before services at the church on Wednesday. The family prefers memorials.

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.

[Globe Gazette]