The Rosary Service for Alyce C. Johnson, age 94, of Lemmon, will be 10:30am Friday, December 29, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lemmon followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 am. Fr Brian Fawcett will officiate with burial in Greenhill Cemetery at Lemmon.


Special music will be provided by Dorene Bierwagen, Tony and Ruth Waller.

Serving as casketbearers are Ralph Lyon, Thomas Munyon, Milton Storm, Jesse Carmichael, Fred Beer, Richard Krausz. All friends and neighbors are considered honorary bearers.

ALYCE CECELIA BRISCOE was born August 14, 1912 at Brayton, SD on Thunder Butte Creek in Perkins County to Joseph and Maude (Harris) Briscoe. In 1916, they moved to Ziebach County where she grew to womanhood. Alyce attended the Mack School and graduated from St. Joseph's Catholic School in Timber Lake.

She was united in marriage to Maurice Youel Johnson on January 4, 1932 at Isabel, SD. To this union two children were born, Monte and Dorothy. In 1939, they purchased land southwest of Meadow along Thunder Butte Creek in Perkins County. They later built a house and outbuildings and lived there until moved into the HUD Housing in Lemmon in 1988. Alyce entered Five Counties Nursing Home in May of 2003. She passed from this life there on Monday, December 25, at the age of 94 years, 4 months, 11 days.

Alyce was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. She served on rural school and election boards for several years.

She is survived by 1 daughter and son-in-law, Dorothy and Einar Drageset, Isabel, SD; 1 daughter-in-law, Beverly Johnson, St. Cloud, MN; 7 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren; 4 step great granddaughters; 10 great great grandchildren; 7 step great great grandchildren; 1 brother and sister-in-law, David and LaVerne Briscoe, Norman, OK; 2 sisters, Dorothy Eliason, Gettysburg, SD; Josephine Boyer, Spearfish, SD; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Maurice on November 21, 2005; 1 son, Monte on April 7, 2005; 2 sisters, Irene Alderson and Anna Smith; 4 brothers, John in infancy; Dale, Jack, and Bill Briscoe.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established to the Crippled Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, MN and to the St. Mary's Catholic Church Handicap Access Fund.