Alyce M Anderson

Funeral Services for Alyce M. Anderson will be conducted from the Christian Homes Chapel in Holdrege, Nebraska on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Murray Jones, Chaplain DeWane Dow and Mr. Wayne Carlson officiating. Interment will be at the Moses Hill Cemetery in rural Phelps County, Nebraska.

Alyce Mae Anderson, 91 years of age, of Holdrege, passed away on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at the Christian Homes Care Community at Holdrege. Alyce was born on November 15, 1920 in Phelps County near Loomis, Nebraska, the seventh of eight children born to Edward Hilbert and Hanna (Hanson) Edlund. She was baptized at Moses Hill Evangelical Covenant Church. She attended school in Phelps County and graduated from Holdrege High School with the class of 1938.

She was employed as a telephone operator for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Holdrege and also in Omaha.

On August 28, 1948 she was united in marriage to Ray Gerald Anderson and to this union one daughter was born, Janet Kay.

The family lived in Gothenburg, Nebraska, moved to Broken Bow, Nebraska and then moved to a farm northeast of Holdrege in 1952. They engaged in farming for 30 years until their retirement in 1982 and moved into Holdrege. Ray passed away on May 17, 2001.

Alyce accepted the Lord in her youth and was a past member of the Moses Hill Evangelical Covenant Church, where she was active teaching Sunday School and served in music ministry. Since moving to Holdrege, she had attended Trinity Evangelical Free Church.

Besides her parents and her husband, Ray, she was preceded in death by five sisters: Helen Elander and her husband, Boyd, Eula Burnett and her husband, Lynn, Ruby Edlund, Louise Trauerman, Mary Ann Edlund; two brothers: Harley Edlund and his wife, Betty, and Norman Edlund; one sister-in-law, Marilyn Anderson; and one brother-in-law, Wilbert Anderson.

She is survived by her daughter, Janet Anderson of Lincoln, Nebraska; two sisters-in-law: Norrene Anderson of Brady, Nebraska, Jewel Johnson and her husband, Forrest of Gothenburg; two brothers-in-law: Delmar Anderson and his wife, Pauline of Gothenburg, Wendel Anderson of Omaha, Nebraska; several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be held on Monday, February 20, 2012 from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with the family greeting from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege.

A memorial has been established in her memory and kindly suggested to the Moses Hill Cemetery Association.

Expressions of kindness and caring can be sent to the family at www.nelsonbauerfh.com

The Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege, Nebraska is in charge of arrangements.