Alice Smallwood
February 15, 1938 — February 26, 2015
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Alice Smallwood
Alice Rosemary Smallwood
February 15, 1934 - February 26, 2015
Alice Rosemary (Dillingham) Smallwood, of China Spring, passed away Thursday, February 26, 2015 at her home with complications from COPD. Services will be 1p.m. Saturday, February 28, at the OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Boulevard, with her grandson, Cpt Chaplain Arthur Dickerson, III officiating. Alice will then go home to Hardin County, Kentucky for services and burial.
Alice, or Rosemary, was born February 15, 1936 in Fort Knox, Kentucky to Attie Pearl and Harold Warren Dillingham. She married her high school sweetheart, Kenneth (Bobby) Smallwood and proceeded to travel the world with him as an Air Force wife.
Alice loved music; she played the guitar and piano as well as the accordion all by ear, and sang beautifully. COPD robbed her of her beautiful voice, but it could not take away her joy of music as long as she could play her instruments. In recent years she took up the mountain dulcimer and even made several along with her husband.
Alice is preceded in death by her parents, six siblings, Roger Miller, Edwin Miller, Grace Christine Hanson, Oliver Dillingham, Doug Dillingham and Walter Charles Dillingham, and a son, Michael Ray Smallwood.
She is survived by her husband, her sister and brother-in-law Iris and Lawrence Roewe, her brother Joe Dillingham; two sons, Rusty Savage (Neal Smallwood) of Eugene, Oregon and Timothy Smallwood of Plano; four daughters, (Wanda) Gayle Zucha and husband, Scooter, of Waco, Teresa Jones of Coldwater, Kansas, Linda Roeder and husband, Bryon, of Fort Worth, Jane Lorenzen and husband, Mark, of Rockwall as well as many loving nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The family would like to extend special thanks to Gentiva Hospice in Waco for providing warm, loving care for our wife and mother during the last year, as well Dr. Keith Horner and his staff here in Waco and Dr. Taskar in Tyler for providing years of care.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Pearl Bluegrass Jam in Pearl, Texas; http://www.pearlbluegrass.com/ or to the Wayside Christian Mission in Louisville, Kentucky; http://wcm1.weebly.com/
February 15, 1934 - February 26, 2015
Alice Rosemary (Dillingham) Smallwood, of China Spring, passed away Thursday, February 26, 2015 at her home with complications from COPD. Services will be 1p.m. Saturday, February 28, at the OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Boulevard, with her grandson, Cpt Chaplain Arthur Dickerson, III officiating. Alice will then go home to Hardin County, Kentucky for services and burial.
Alice, or Rosemary, was born February 15, 1936 in Fort Knox, Kentucky to Attie Pearl and Harold Warren Dillingham. She married her high school sweetheart, Kenneth (Bobby) Smallwood and proceeded to travel the world with him as an Air Force wife.
Alice loved music; she played the guitar and piano as well as the accordion all by ear, and sang beautifully. COPD robbed her of her beautiful voice, but it could not take away her joy of music as long as she could play her instruments. In recent years she took up the mountain dulcimer and even made several along with her husband.
Alice is preceded in death by her parents, six siblings, Roger Miller, Edwin Miller, Grace Christine Hanson, Oliver Dillingham, Doug Dillingham and Walter Charles Dillingham, and a son, Michael Ray Smallwood.
She is survived by her husband, her sister and brother-in-law Iris and Lawrence Roewe, her brother Joe Dillingham; two sons, Rusty Savage (Neal Smallwood) of Eugene, Oregon and Timothy Smallwood of Plano; four daughters, (Wanda) Gayle Zucha and husband, Scooter, of Waco, Teresa Jones of Coldwater, Kansas, Linda Roeder and husband, Bryon, of Fort Worth, Jane Lorenzen and husband, Mark, of Rockwall as well as many loving nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The family would like to extend special thanks to Gentiva Hospice in Waco for providing warm, loving care for our wife and mother during the last year, as well Dr. Keith Horner and his staff here in Waco and Dr. Taskar in Tyler for providing years of care.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Pearl Bluegrass Jam in Pearl, Texas; http://www.pearlbluegrass.com/ or to the Wayside Christian Mission in Louisville, Kentucky; http://wcm1.weebly.com/
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