Alice L. Ramsey

Alice was born in a tiny town in northeastern Indiana on March 14, 1927. She was the oldest
of 3 siblings.

She was as surprised as any one when she found out she was the salutatorian of her
graduating high school class.

After high school she attended business college and went on to work as a book keeper in a
bank. She was then employed in the main office of the merchandising company of W.T. Grant
until the mid 1970s. She then worked as the office manager for Turnstone until her retirement in
1994.

In 1945, she married the love of her life when he returned from the Pacific Theater after WWII.
Of this marriage, there were 3 children over the span of 18 years. Growing up being frugal, she
was a keeper of everything that she thought she might need again, or things that contained
sentimental value (and most everything had sentimental value) or items given to her by
ancestors or current family.

Throughout her life, her family was her most precious gift. She was the keeper of the
memories and she loved to impart those memories on her children, grandchildren and great
grand children. She would impart wisdom often reflecting on her own hard learned lessons
from life. She brought her own brand of common sense to any situation which could be
followed by a warm hug or a rap on the back of the head which ever the situation called for.
She had an infectious laugh and once started, the laughter would lead to more laughter often
laughing at nothing at all. She was always up for an adventure, no matter how crazy it sounded
if she was surrounded by those she loved. As she got older and less adventurous, she loved to
tell the kids about her antiques to continue family memories and she became the "best
customer" when it came to playing hair salon or tea party with her youngest great
granddaughters.

After retirement, she moved to Wyoming to be near her youngest grand children, but where
ever she was, she always yearned to be near her other grandchildren also and so she
developed a love of travel. Into her mid 80's, she would show her strength by driving by herself
across the States for extended visits with her Indiana family and back again to Wyoming. The
first of her great grand children were twins and called her Grammie, which stuck and she
remained Grammie to all her great grandchildren. She spent many summers with the twins
from rocking them as babies to watching them grow into adults. They have memories of the 3
of them laying in bed at night giggling for hours and playing memory games.

Recently, every other week or so, she would wait to get a call from her youngest great
grandson who would tell her all about learning to swim and a dive that he made. That would
remain a topic of many conversations until the next call came.

During her retirement, she developed a love of genealogy, and spend countless hours on the
computer or in any library looking up some obscure part of the family tree. She was also an
active member of the Phi Beta Psi sorority, the American Legion auxiliary, the United
Methodist Women and she volunteered for the local hospital.

After losing her eyesight to macular degeneration, she developed a passion for listening to her
talking books. She looked forward to visits from her friends from the Wyoming Senior Citizens
Respite program, her intermittent care givers from Mel's Helping Hands and Rocky Mountain
Oncology and her Stephen Ministers. All started as acquaintances but ended as true friends.
Friends always meant as much to her as family and until her death she continued to talk on the
phone with a dear friend that she had been friends with since they were little girls.

She was proceeded in death by her parents, her younger brother, her oldest son, and one
granddaughter.

She is survived by her son and daughter, several daughters in law, 4 grand children and their
spouses , 8 great grand children, a sister and numerous nieces and nephews.

No services are planned at this time at her request with a memorial service at a later date.

Memorials can be made to the Charity of your Choice or to the Wyoming Department of
Education, Vision Outreach Services.