Alice Froelich, age 75 of Lemmon, passed away on Friday evening, April 11, at the West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger.


The Rosary Service will be held at 10:00am and the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30am, both on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lemmon. Fr. Chad Gion and Fr. Brian Fawcett will officiate with burial in Greenhill Cemetery.


Special music will be provided by Mary Nehl, organist and Genneca Froelich, soloist.


Serving as casketbearers are Mike Lockert, Jim Lockert, Pat Froelich, Pat Dalzell, Mike Ginther, Pat Bootz, and Rich Dalzell. All grand and great grandchildren are considered honorary bearers.


ALICE MARIE HEINITZ was born February 18, 1933, in Sioux County, ND, to Jacob and Hulda (Uttke) Heinitz. She grew up on a farm north of Morristown and attended school in Morristown. Alice attended high school in Lemmon, graduating with the Class of 1951. She was employed at Bell Telephone as a telephone switchboard operator. Alice was united in marriage to John M. Froelich, Sr., on February 20, 1952, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lemmon. The Froelich's farmed together west of Lemmon where they raised their family of seven sons and two daughters. Over the course of her life, Alice lovingly hand-stitched hundreds of homemade quilts that her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren now cherish.


Alice loved to bake, especially bread and cinnamon rolls; her pies were a specialty. She enjoyed sharing her baking with everyone and published her own recipe book. Alice always raised a large garden and enjoyed canning the fruits of her labors. She loved being outdoors and spent some of her most memorable time fishing with her life-long mate.


Surviving family members include her husband, John; two daughters, Diane (Al) Albers; Mary Ellen (Steve) O'Brien; seven sons, Daniel (Gail) Froelich; Mark (Mary Lou) Froelich; John Jr. (Tere) Froelich; Gregory (Shelly) Froelich; Robert (Brenda) Froelich; Edward (Danita) Froelich; Scott (Sally) Froelich; fifteen grandchildren, Stephanie (Ryan) Archibald, Stacy Froelich; Lewis and Joseph Froelich; Melissa (Chris) Harrington; Genneca and Amanda Froelich; Kristy (Ryan) Pagel; Dustin (Kristi) Albers; Kyle Albers, Philip Froelich; Nicholas Froelich; Sheldon Froelich; Haley Froelich; and Heidi Froelich; five great grandchildren, Molly, Maggie, and Jake Archibald; Avery Harrington, and Paige Pagel; two brothers, Albert Heinitz and Donald Heinitz; three sisters, Avis Kling; Doris Bjerke; Alaine Haugen.


Alice was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Dorothy Leno, and one great grandson, Max Archibald.