Funeral service for Alyce Nelson, age 99, of Lake Mills, Iowa, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Sion Lutheran Church, rural Lake Mills, with the Rev. Tom Hagen officiating. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. today at the Mittelstadt Funeral Home in Lake , and again one hour before the services at the church. Burial will be at Bristol Cemetery, rural Joice.

Alyce C. Nelson was born in Bristol Township, Worth County, Iowa, 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 lifelong active member at Bristol Lutheran Church until its closing when she transferred her membership to Sion Lutheran Church. She was a devoted mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to her family.

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

Survivors include son, VeRone and wife Bonnie Nelson of El Dorado Springs, Mo.; daughter-in-law, Fern Nelson, and granddaughter, Doreen and husband Jim Carter, all of Woodbury, Minn.; granddaughter, Deb and husband Jim Scholten of Sioux City, Iowa; great-grandchildren: Jessica and husband Ryan McIntosh, J. D. Scholten, and Caroline Carter; sister, Ruth Peterson of Northwood, Iowa; 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; and brothers: Henry, Almer, Inghart, Clarence, Arnold and Joe Halvorson.

Alyce’s wishes were that any memorials be given to the Bristol Cemetery Fund.