Pratt, Alice Bonita Chase Taylor (1919-2010)

PRATT, CHASE, TAYLOR

Posted By: Linda Linn (email)
Date: 10/7/2010 at 21:02:45

Sioux City Journal
Alice B. Pratt
Posted: Thursday, October 7, 2010 12:00 am

KINGSLEY, Iowa -- Alice B. Pratt, 91, of Kingsley passed away Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Kingsley United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Roger Kurtenbach officiating. Burial will be in Good Hope Cemetery in Correctionville, Iowa. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m., at the Johnson - Earnest Funeral Home of Kingsley. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service Friday at the church.

Alice Bonita Pratt was born Sept. 5, 1919, in Defiance, Iowa, the oldest child of Harry and Mabel (White) Chase. She lived near Defiance until the age of five, when the family moved to Woodbury County, Iowa. Alice attended country school near her home and later attended the Correctionville High School. Her mother passed away at a young age, so Alice helped to raise her younger siblings and assisted with the farming.

On Nov. 13, 1944, Alice and Edward Taylor were united in marriage in Merrill, Iowa. The couple farmed until Edward passed away on Sept. 23, 1963. Alice moved to Kingsley and worked as a nurses' aide at Sunrise Manor and Westwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sioux City.

Alice married Merlin Pratt on Jan. 24, 1973. He passed away on July 23, 1976. Alice remained in Kingsley.

She was an active member at the Kingsley United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women. Alice also volunteered her time at the Kingsley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for many years. In recent years, Alice lived at Prime Living Apartments in Le Mars, Iowa, and, for the last few months, at Plymouth Manor Care Center in Le Mars.

She will be lovingly remembered by her daughter and her husband, Janice and Walter Skodmin of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a son, Steven Taylor of Des Moines; a daughter and her husband, Nancy and Mark DeRaad of Le Mars, Iowa; grandchildren, Chad, Corey, Jacki, David, Anne, Rhonda and Chuck; great-grandchildren, Jade, Hope, Brandon, Tyler, Tony, Marti, Jay, Bree, Nick, and Heather; a sister, Hazel Bollin of Le Mars; a brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Pearl and Bill Linden of Moville, Iowa; and a brother-in-law, Mark Sands of Sioux City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Edward Taylor and Merlin Pratt; a son, Roger Taylor; an infant sister, Martha Chase; a sister and her husband, Ileta and Ivan Earnest; a sister, Vera Sands; a brother and his wife, Harry and Dee Chase; a brother, Wesley Chase; and a brother-in-law, Doug Bollin.