HOUSTON, Texas Alice Veronica (Biever) Ellis, 89, was born Oct. 8, 1934, on a small farm near Clark, South Dakota, the fourth child of Louis John and Vina Mae (Rhoten) Biever. She spent her youth on a small farm 9 1/2 miles north of Iroquois, where she attended a one room school with all eight grades that included six of her siblings at the same time.
Alice graduated as Valedictorian of Iroquois High School in 1952. In 1955 she graduated as a Registered Nurse from St. Johns School of Nursing in Huron. After working as a nurse in Huron for a couple years, she worked in Chicago, Ill., before moving to Houston, Texas, to work at M.D. Anderson Hospital. There she helped with one of the first heart transplants. She later worked for Southeast Memorial Hospital in Houston for many years.
She and David N. Ellis were married Nov. 17, 1968. Their son David Louis Ellis, born March 5, 1973, was the center of her life.
She served as an active nurse for 44 years! She was devoted to the care of our natural environment loved birds and was a long time Audubon Society member. She was an amateur genealogist after many years of research she found her dads relatives in Germany and went to meet them. She lived her intense belief in social responsibility.
When hurricane Katrina hit Houston, she drove to people in need and fed them out of her trunk. She believed everyone had a social and moral duty to be an informed voter she diligently studied every candidate, and we were all aware of her well-formed opinions.
Alice died Wednesday Sept. 25, 2024, at Park Manor South Belt in Houston, Texas.
Alices ashes will be buried later in Saint Williams Cemetery Yale. Her grave site is adjacent to her parents, and her brothers Bob, Jerry, John, and Bill Biever, where she will eventually be joined by her husband and son.
She was predeceased by her sister Shirley and her husband Mike Salter; Bobs wife Maxine, and Janices husband Al; two nieces Kim (Lentz) Soderberg, and Terri (Lentz) Gouveia; and a nephew Steven Salter.
Alice is survived by her husband David N. and son David L. Ellis in Houston, Texas; sister Janice (Biever) Lentz in Huron; brothers and wives Wayne and Darlene Biever in Pine City, Minn., and Larry and Helen Biever in Fredericksburg, Va.; and sister-in-law Kathleen Biever in Iroquois. She has 20 nieces and nephews, their spouses and their children.
Alices memorial visitation will be at 10 a.m., with a 10:30 a.m prayer service, on Saturday, May 31, at Welter Funeral Home with burial at 11:30 a.m. at St. Williams Cemetery in Yale.
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