Alice Borchers, 91, Beaver Creek, died Sunday, Sept. 26, 2004, at Tuff Memorial Home in Hills. Services were Wednesday, Sept. 29, at United Methodist Church in Luverne. The Rev. Bart Fletcher officiated. Burial was in Pleasant View Cemetery, rural Luverne. Alice Marie Arends. a twin daughter of Reemt and Gesina (Ennenga) Arends was born on March 9, 1913, in Steen. She attended school in Steen and graduated from Hills High School in 1932. She married Vernon Borchers on Sept. 29, 1938, at Pleasant View Church in rural Luverne. Following their marriage they continued farming the Borchers homestead which came into the family in 1871 to Mr. Borchers’ great-grandfather. During the many years the couple farmed together, she enjoyed working outside caring for her chickens and geese along with maintaining a neat yard. Mr. Borcher died on April 2, 1999. She moved to Tuff Memorial Home on Aug. 24, 2001. Mrs. Borchers was a member of Pleasant View Church until it closed. They then attended Evangelical United Brethren Church in Steen and later, United Methodist Church in Luverne. After the closing of Pleasant View Church she became a member of Pleasant View Cemetery Association which established a perpetual care fund to make sure the cemetery would always be maintained. Survivors include two sons, Darrell (Alvina) Borchers, Sioux Falls, S.D., and Russell (Jean) Borchers, Beaver Creek; four grandchildren, Stacey Heminover, Mankato, Tonya Frazier, Charlotte, N.C., Scott and Jason Borchers, Sioux Falls, and one great-grandson, Cullen Heminover, Mankato. Mrs. Borchers was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, four brothers and four sisters.Roste Funeral Home, Hills, was in charge of arrangements.
