Alice Marcella Myers

Alice Marcella Myers
 Alice Marcella Myers, 88, died Tuesday, March 24, 2026 in Cresco.
 Mass of Christian Burial was to be offered at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 27, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Waucoma with the Rev. Nick Radloff celebrating the Mass. Interment was to follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Waucoma with Nathan Grimm, Michael Grimm, Alex Myers, Carson Myers, Gary Myers and Mike Ahlers serving as pallbearers and friends greeting the family from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the church and visitation continuing an hour prior to Mass Friday.
 Hugeback-Johnson Funeral Home & Crematory have been entrusted with Alice’s arrangements.
 Alice was born in Fort Atkinson to Anton and Rosalia (Timp) Elsbernd.  She was their youngest child and great up in a large, loving familiy. She graduated from Fort Atkinson High School in 1955 and married Leonard Myers the following year.  After living in Wisconsin, they moved back to Iowa in 1965.  They purchased the farm in Jackson Junction the next year, then in 1967 began a lifetime of farming.  Alice and Leonard had nine children.  Alice was a homemaker who enjoyed quilting, hardanger embroidery, playing cards and other games, baking, reading and a good laugh. Her cinnamon rolls, kolaches and cookies were the best!  She made friends easily and cherished every visit.
 Alice is survived by seven sons: Roy (Tina) in British Columbia, Carl (Deb) in Kentuck, Glenn (June) in Minnesota, Wayne (Donna) in Utah, Lloyd (Ruth Ann) in Iowa, Martin (Wendy) in Missouri and Lee (Debbie) in Florida; two daughters: Rachel (Rick) in WA, Anita (Bob) in MN; twenty-one grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; two sisters: Rose Lansing, Darlene Lansing; sisters-in-law: Margaret Elsbernd, Dee Myers, Elaine Hill; brother-in-law Paul Kress.
 She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Leonard in 2010; brothers: Leo (Helen) Wilfrid, Andrew (Alice), Serenus, Edward; sisters: Rita (Leonard) Nolte, Marie (Gerhard) Setter; sisters and brothers-in-law: Virgil Lansing, Clarence Lansing, Frances Kress, Esther Myers, Magdalen (Ralph) Wieling, Dorothy (James) Cotant, Marilyn (Carl) Hoffmann, Albert (Marlene) Myers, Mary (Bernard) DeSloover, Betty (Tony) Sieverding.