Date of Birth:
Wednesday, October 7, 1914
Date of Death:
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Age:
100 years old

Alice J. Nelson

The funeral service for Alice Nelson will be at 11:00AM on Friday, December 5th in River Park Chapel at Macken Funeral Home with Rev. Martha Hendricks officiating.  Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.  Burial will be at Grandview Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.

Alice Joy Nelson of Rochester ,passed away Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at the Stewartville Care Center.  She was 100 years old.

Alice was born October 7, 1914 to Claude and Frances (Peterson) Fiegel at Kasson, Minnesota.  She graduated from Kasson Public School in 1932, received her Associate of Arts Degree from Winona State Teachers College in 1934, and began her teaching career at Adams, Minnesota.  She continued her education throughout the years and in the late 1950s earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Winona State College.

On June 26, 1938, she married Dean Orville Nelson of West Concord, Minnesota, at the home of her parents in Kasson.  The couple moved to Rochester, where he was employed as a barber at the Zumbro Hotel Barber Shop, which he later purchased.

Alice began her teaching career in Adams and went on to spend many years as an elementary instructor in the Rochester Public School system.  She taught kindergarten through grade six classes and also remedial reading over the years at various schools – among them Longfellow, Holmes, Hawthorne, Northrop, Folwell, Sunset Terrace, Washington, Lincoln, Horace Mann, and Bamber Valley.

During her teaching career, she was active in many professional organizations, serving on a number of state advisory committees and as an officer of both the elementary and kindergarten sections of the Minnesota Education Association, of which she was a lifetime member.

She was a past president of the Rural Teachers Association and also past secretary of the Southeast Minnesota Reading Association.  She was a member and past president of Alpha Delta Kappa teachers sorority and also the Rochester Retired Teachers Association.  She was a member of Christ United Methodist Church of Rochester.

She was preceded in death by her husband, who died October 4, 1995; her parents; and a brother, Lynn Fiegel of Alexandria, Virginia.

She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Marcia and Charles “Bill” Paulson of Rochester; a granddaughter and her husband, Marci and James Newcome of Stewartville; two great-grandchildren, Jordan and Kaitlyn Newcome of Stewartville; a step great-grandson, Taylor Newcome of Jackson, Minnesota, and a sister, Mrs Ruth (Louie) Nicholas of Rochester.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association.