She died at Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison, Monday, July, 15, 2002, at the age of seventy-four.

Alice was baptized and later confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning, Iowa, and received her education in Westside, Iowa.

She then worked for her family on the farm and in Manning before her marriage.

On October 24, 1948, she was united in marriage to Chris Meislahn at the Zion Lutheran Church in Denison.

They settled on a farm near Gray, Iowa, and were blessed with three children. They retired from farming in 1965 and moved to Denison where Chris managed the Union Gas Company. While in Denison, Alice worked at Farmland Foods, Inc. for more than ten years before helping her husband with the book work at the Union Gas Company for a few years.

She also worked at Eventide in the kitchen for some time and did some babysitting.

In her leisure time, Alice enjoyed homemaking, especially cooking and sewing. She also enjoyed gardening, but most of all, she enjoyed dancing.

She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Denison.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband Chris in 1983, one brother Vernon, and three sisters, Pearl Eischeid, Norma Jean Wailes, and Erma Bock. Survivors include one daughter, Christy Meislahn of Davenport, Iowa; two sons, Allan of Alameda, California; and Eric of Denison; three grandchildren, Joshua and Justin Thorpe of Grand Island, Nebraska; and Shawn Meislahn of Denison, Iowa; two sisters, Caroline McFarland and her husband, Robert of Yellville, Arkansas, Mary Ann Wessling of Schleswig; and two brothers, Willis Hass and his wife, Delores of Ft. Dodge, Iowa; and Robert Hass and his wife, Phyllis of Phelan, California.

Funeral services were held 10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 18, 2002, at Zion Lutheran Church in Denison, Iowa.

Rev. David Sewing and Vicar James Krueger officiated the services and graveside rites held at Gray Cemetery in Gray, Iowa. Organist Karen Kahl provided the organ accompaniment for soloist Mandy Matthew as she sang "On Eagle's Wings" and for congregational hymns "How Great Thou Art," and "I Know that My Redeemer Lives." Those serving as honorary pallbearers were Larry Hagedorn, Kenny Rohe, and Jack Faulkner.

Those serving as pallbearers were Rebecca Webb, Donna Faulkner, Justin Thorpe, Troy Dahleen, Joshua Thorpe, and Lois (Hagedorn) Williams.

The family invited everyone in attendance to join them in fellowship and lunch served at the Gray Community Center. The Huebner Funeral Home in Denison was in charge of arrangements.