Alice Baty, 90, passed away peacefully in her daughter's home surrounded by her family on January 30, 2017.

Visitation: 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 1, 2017, at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Central City where a Parish Vigil Service will be held at 3:30 p.m.. Funeral Mass: 11:00 a.m. Thursday, February 2, 2017, at St. John's Catholic Church, Coggon. Burial: Coggon Cemetery, Coggon.

Alice was born August 27, 1926, in Dyersville, Iowa, the daughter of John and Gunilda (Kramer) Drees.

She attended the St. Francis Xavier Schools in Dyersville and received her food service certificate at Iowa State University in Ames.

She married Wilfred Krapfl August 18, 1948, in Dyersville. They divorced in 1979. After her children were raised

Alice worked at the Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Manchester for four years in the Dietary Department and later owned and operated a restaurant known as "Alice's Corner" in Coggon for nine years.

On February 6, 1985, she married Minor Baty and they lived on the farm until they moved to Coggon in 1998. Minor passed away September 28, 2005.

Alice was a member of St. John's Catholic Church and a member of its Rosary Society. Alice loved crafts, crocheting, quilting, painting and working jigsaw puzzles.

Those preceding her in death are her parents; three brothers, Reynold, John and Donald Drees; seven sisters, Dorothy McGrane, Marcella Wolfe, Viola Loecke, Martha Rubly, Germaine Weigel, Marian Stelken and Sister Wilma Drees O.S.F.

Alice loved her growing and active family immensely. They were always her greatest pride and joy. She will be greatly missed by those who loved her.

Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service-Central City

Name: Lucinda Alice Drees
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 27 Aug 1926
Event Place: Dodge Township, Dubuque, Iowa, United States
Event Place (Original): Dodge Township, Iowa, United States
Sex: Female
Father's Name: John R Drees
Mother's Name: Gudwina Kramer