Alice Behr

Services for Alice Baker Behr will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 28, at American Reformed Church with the Rev. Dave Sikkema officiating. Burial will follow at Maplewood Cemetery in Luverne.

Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 27, at Hartquist Funeral Home Engebretson Chapel in Luverne, with the family present from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Alice Baker Behr, 96, Hills, formerly of Luverne, died Tuesday, April 25, 2006, at Tuff Memorial Nursing Home in Hills.

Alice Klein was born to Peter and Gertie (Harmsen) Klein on Feb. 27, 1910, in Rock Valley, Iowa. Early in Alice's childhood her mother died from the war flu. Her father worked as a building contractor in Sioux Center, Iowa, where Alice began working as a hired hand at age 12. She married Lewis Baker on Feb. 11, 1932, in Valley Springs, S.D. They farmed in the area until 1964 when they moved to Luverne. Mr. Baker died on April 17, 1974.

She married Peter Behr on Dec. 6, 1977. After his death on Feb. 27, 1980, after a battle with cancer, Mrs. Behr remained living in Steen before returning to Luverne in 1989. In July 2002 she became a resident of the Tuff Memorial Home in Hills.

Mrs. Behr was a charter member of the American Reformed Church in Luverne. She was the congregation's oldest member. She was a homemaker and tended many plants and flowers. She enjoyed crafts, making afghans and scrapbooking.

She is survived by one son, Gerrit (Evelyn) Baker, Alexandria, two daughters, Gertie Ann Van Batavia, Alexandria, and Carol (Fred) Cook, Luverne; 10 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; 3 great-great-grandchildren; and one brother, Arthur Klein, Sioux Center.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Lewis Baker and Peter Behr; her daughter Jeanne and her husband Kenny Broesder; a son-in-law, Ben Van Batavia; one brother, Cornelius Baker, her sister Anna Soodsma; and a granddaughter, Melanie Cook.

A tree will be planted in her memory by Hospice of Sioux Valley Luverne Hospital.

Hartquist Funeral Home Engebretson Chapel is in charge of arrangements.