Taken from a Mazeppa newspaper (no title or date give, but paper probably dated 1963)
MRS. MELISSA SPICE TO CELEBRATE 100TH BIRTHDAY.
Mrs. Melissa Spicer will quietly celebrate her 100th birthday on Friday, May 24th at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lortscher near Mazeppa, with whom she has resided for the past 20 years. Her husband, John Spicer, passed away January 26, 1914.

Mrs. Spicer is in good health, both mentally and physically, and is in very good spirits as she rocks back and forth in her favorite rocking chair holding a conversation with her many friends and relatives as they visit her.
She has two daughters, Mrs. Jessie Banick and Mrs. Robert Lortscher, seven grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Spicer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sibley, was born May 24, 1863 in Zumbro Falls, one of a family of seven, has one brother, Aulden F. Sibley, residing in White Sulpher Springs, Montana.
A centennial open house celebration is planned for her on June 9th at the Robert Lortscher home, to be later announced.
Melissa attributes her longevity to a proper diet and hard work. The chief accomplishment of her present age is to walk up the road about 1/4 mile to visit her niece. She carries her cane but seldom uses it.


ROCHESTER POST BULLETIN FEBRUARY 8, 1966.
MRS. MELISSA SPICER, 102, AREA WOMAN, SUCCUMBS.
MAZEPPA - Mrs. Melissa Spicer, lifelong Wabasha County resident who observed her 102nd birthday last May, died Monday at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, where she had been a patient the past three days. She had resided at the Maple Manor nursing home in Rochester the past two months.
The former Melissa Sibley was born May 24, 1863 at Zumbro Falls, and was married to John H. Spicer Jan. 29, 1894 at Stockholm, Wi.. Mr. Spicer, a farmer, died in 1914.
For several years. Mrs. Spicer resided with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Lortscher, rural Mazeppa.
Mrs. Spicer is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lortscher and Mrs. Jessie Banick of Pine Island; one brother, Aulden Sibley of White Sulpher Springs, Montana: six grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren, and 14 great-great-grandchildren. Three brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
Funeral services will be held Thursday P.M. at Golden Hill Community Church at Rochester with the Rev. Fred Moritz officiating. Burial will be in the Mazeppa Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Webster Funeral Home in Rochester from 4 P.M. today until noon on Thursday and then at the church until time of services.

1. 2. Mina Angeline SPICER  
2. 3. Jessie SPICER   b. 9 Oct 1897, Wabasha County, Minnesota; d. Wabasha County, Minnesota; bur. Wabasha County, Minnesota.

1. 4. Donald LORTSCHER   b. 26 Nov 1922.

1. 5. Raeburn Lucille BANNICK  
2. 6. Evelyn Maxine BANNICK  
3. 7. Virgil Adrian BANNICK  
4. 8. Merle Elaine BANNICK  
5. 9. Marilyn Marie BANNICK  
6. 10. BANNICK  

1. 11. LORTSCHER  
2. 12. LORTSCHER  

1. 13. RANTHUM  
2. 14. RANTHUM  
3. 15. RANTHUM  
4. 16. RANTHUM  
5. 17. RANTHUM  
6. 18. RANTHUM  

1. 19. BUDENSIEK  
2. 20. BUDENSIEK  
3. 21. BUDENSIEK