Alice Huisenfeldt

Alice Johanna was born November 27, 1913 in Ghent to Arnold and Gertrude (VanUden) Huisenfeldt. She was a graduate of St. Eloi School, Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel Academy in Mankato, St. Mary’s School of Nursing and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Alice served as a community nurse in Minneapolis and St. Paul, county public health nurse in Sioux and Humboldt counties in Iowa and in the European Theater during WWII in the 199th General Hospital in Rennes, France and at Crile General Hospital in Cleveland Ohio. Upon discharge she received a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis under the GI Bill, followed by 30 years of school health nursing and health education in Duluth. She also served on various boards dealing with health: St. Louis County Cancer Society, Lung Association, Heart Association, Epilepsy League and the Duluth Human Development Center. She was an officer or committee member of Second District Nurses’ Association and Minnesota Nurse Association and the American Public Health Association. Upon retirement Alice volunteered in the orthopedic section at St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth and on the board of the Duluth Senior Citizen Coalition. She was a member of Altrusa International and Plus 55 Club of Cathedral of Holy Rosary in Duluth. Alice was keenly interested in the prevention and control of disease especially in relation to Poverty, sanitation, nutrition and environment. She enjoyed reading, scrabble, bridge, cribbage, golf and bicycling. Alice died on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at the Avera Morningside Heights in Marshall. She is survived by friends and family. She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Genevieve and numerous cousins.