Alice L. Cobb December 25, 1921 - November 7, 2012

Alice was born in Crown Point, Indiana, and thereby became one of the Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) and a Dame of the Magna Carte. A graduate of Purdue University, Alice was bright and possessed an extremely sharp wit.

One of her greatest assets was her ability to listen, and after meeting someone she could tell you all about that person's life, their likes or dislikes and what person was currently the love of that person's life.

She loved to "get all the nitty-gritty details" as she used to say.

And Alice would remember all this for years and years.

Without skipping a beat she could ask a person how specific situations had ended up that they had shared with her long ago.

It was rather impressive.

Along with her memory and wit, our beloved Alice could tell a great story centered around what normally would be considered uneventful but by her interpretation and telling would become hilarious.

She was always able to defray contention with humor.

She was a woman that was born to shop and challenged herself to shop-till-she-dropped at every opportunity. Dressed to the nines described her no matter where she went. She donned hats and looked fabulous in them. She had an extensive wardrobe with THE shoes to match THE purse and THE gloves to match THE hat and THE jewels that in sum would turn heads. And oh my goodness the furs!

At 18 she met the love of her life, but sadly her father, Walter G. Whitehead, was jealous and convinced Alice to turn away from that love. She married Mr. Michelle and had a child, Gini. He married Miss Ewing and had three girls; Pat, Diane and Susan. Then fourteen years later they were both available when he, F. Heath Cobb, showed up in her life and they, within two weeks, married in 1957.

Wise to not make the same mistake twice, she had her childhood sweetheart now and forever.

He was in the U.S. Air Force and so off she went on her first travels out of the state of Indiana to Morocco, then all over Europe before settling in Washington State.

While with Heath on assignments overseas, Alice became the buyer for the service PX - she was in heaven! And when Heath retired, of course, she became an active member of Associated Retired Officer's Wives (AROWS) while he became a professor at Pierce College (formerly Fort Steilacoom Community College) in Tacoma.

She took a career as a loan adjustor, managing a branch office in Tacoma.

They both eventually retired and bought a condo in Gig Harbor in 1985.

Alice and Heath bought their townhouse in Sisters in 2007. In 2011 they moved to Touchmark in Bend to provide Alice with additional care. Alice had 55 years of shared happiness with her beloved husband, Heath, who cared for her to the end and has survived her. Heath has returned to Sisters. Alice is also survived by her dearest daughter, Gini, and her three step-children. We will all miss her greatly.

The memorial - a planting of a tree for Alice in the spring - will be private. Anyone wanting to remember Alice may do so with donations to one of the following:

Daughters of the American Revolution, Mary Ball Chapter - www.

maryballdar.com.

Associated Retired Officers' Wives, P.O. Box 88270, Steilacoom, WA 98388.

Information provided by the family of Alice L. Cobb.