Funeral services for Alice Bernau, age 77, of Emmons, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Scarville, with the Rev. Randy Baldwin officiating. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Mittelstadt Funeral Home in Lake Mills, Iowa, and again one hour before the services at the church. Burial will be at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Scarville, Iowa.

Alice Ann Bernau was born Aug. 19, 1925, on a farm in Pocahontas County, Iowa, near Havelock, to Phillip and Agnes (Schuller) Wagner. She graduated from West Bend High School in 1942. After graduating she worked in a grocery store, was a guide at the Grotto of Redemption and worked at a bank, all in West Bend, Iowa.

Alice married Otto Bernau on Jan. 26, 1949, at Clarinda, Iowa. They spent the first years of their marriage on a farm by Rake, Iowa. They moved to their present farm by Emmons in 1955, where they farmed, had their manufacturing plant and construction business.

Alice enjoyed baking, gardening, crafts, quilting and genealogy. She volunteered for Naeve Partners in Health and Hospice of North Iowa. She enjoyed farmers’ markets, her friends at TOPS and listening to the Minnesota Twins games. She took great pride in her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Alice passed away Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at St. John’s Lutheran Home in Albert Lea.

She is survived by four sons: Marvin and his wife Susan of Emmons and their children Matt and his fianc Megan Buss of Sioux Falls, S.D., Rachel and her husband Tyler Ehlers and Lindsey of Emmons; Merrill and his wife Debi of Emmons and their children Andy of Emmons, Tracy and her husband Jeff Honsey and their children Michelle and Amanda of Medford, Minn.; Martin and his wife Julie of Emmons and their children Nick of Clarks Grove, and Emily and her fianc Jason Hillman; Mark and his wife Cindy of Madison, Wis., and son Mark; her brother, Eugene Wagner and his wife Jean of West Bend, Iowa; her sister, Marjorie Kajewski and her husband Kenny of Whittemore, Iowa; and her sister, Irene Freilinger of Humboldt, Iowa. She is also survived by many brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews and cousins.

Alice was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Otto.

Alice will be greatly missed by her family and friends.