Alice Mae Smith, June 22, 1924, to January 12, 2010. Alice was born in South Beloit, Illinois to Milton and Alma Smith. They relocated to Britton, South Dakota, when Alice was an infant. At the age of 4, Alice lost her mother to tuberculosis. She spent her childhood and teen years in Britton where she formed friendships that endured her entire life. Some of her happiest childhood memories revolved around the time she spent living with her beloved Aunt May and Mays husband, Dewey, her dog Bum and little lamb, Peggy. May and Dewey were later known by her daughters as Grandma and Grandpa Martin. She supported herself during her senior year of high school following her fathers move to Bremerton, WA, to work in the shipyards. The day after graduating at the top of her class she boarded a bus to the Pacific Northwest to be near her father. While employed at a drugstore soda fountain in Bremerton she met the love of her life, her future husband Richard (Bud) Wirth. After WWII she worked hard to help put her husband through college at the University of Washington as they started their family together in their new home, Seattle. Together they raised three daughters in a home filled with laughter and love. After losing her husband when she was only 47, Alice remarried Jorvard Smith who also pre-deceased her. She retired in the early 80s following a long career as a secretary with Shoreline High School and Shoreline Community College. Alice loved to garden and was known for her gorgeous roses that she loved to arrange and give to friends and family. She was a great cook and one could always find a homemade pie or cookies in her freezer. She crocheted gorgeous afghans and sweaters and many a new baby wore a sweater, bonnet, and booties made by Alice. Her needlework was finer than any professional tailor and she spent many hours making beautiful things to grace her daughters and grandchildrens homes. Her daughters Christmas trees are covered with ornaments handmade by Alice. After inheriting several antique, partially finished quilt tops from Grandma Martin, she worked for months to complete them so that each of her daughters would have one. One of her biggest projects, and perhaps the one most demonstrative of her love for her family, involved the family albums she made for each of her daughters. The project took her five years, included hours and hours of research, photo reproduction and meticulous notation done on a manual typewriter. They spanned the years from the late eighteen nineties to the mid nineteen eighties and each daughter received her own personalized family album set for Christmas 1990. Alice cherished her many friends and enjoyed countless hours with them playing pinochle, going to the casino, and going to lunch and dinner. If a friend or family member was down, she could be found in her kitchen preparing food to take to them, and if roses were in bloom, always a bouquet. She loved to dance, enjoyed a good martini and was a devout Catholic. Alice overcame serious health problems including a nearly year-long hospitalization and surgery for tuberculosis in the fifties and multiple cardiac problems later in her life. While Alice enjoyed a rich life with her friends, the center of her life was her family: her daughter, Sue Oates and Sues children, Jason Sandbeck, Derek Sandbeck and Dereks wife Iris, daughter Janet Miller and her son Charlie Schaeffer, daughter Margie Svrjcek and her husband Ralph, Margies daughter Kristie Staber, the mother of Alices beloved great-granddaughter Kaylee Alvarado, and Margies daughter Jenny Wipprecht and her husband Derk. She was an ardent supporter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and gave much to support their fight for a cure. There was nothing Alice loved more than a family gathering and the spirited gatherings around her dining room table were frequent. She would move heaven and earth to find a date that fit into everyones busy schedules and her familys favorite memories were formed at that dining room table. There was nothing that Alice wouldnt do for her family. She loved them fiercely and selflessly and devoted her life to ensure that theirs was better. If you were hers you were precious and never doubted for one second that you were loved. Alice was cherished by her family all of whom recognize their incredible good fortune to have had her for so many years. She was truly an angel here on earth.