Obituary printed in Jan. 30, 2001 newspaper, Blair, NE

Alice Emma Seaver, 81

Alice Seaver, 81, of Valley, died Friday, Jan. 26, 2001, at Life Care Center of Elkhorn.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001, at Waterloo United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Russ Tompkins officiating. Interment will be at the Elk City Cemetery.

Alice Emma Seaver was born March 25, 1919, at her family’s home in Fremont to Ardan E. and Bertha (Decker) Seaver. Miss Seaver was named after her two grandmothers. In Nov. 1922, after living for several months with grandparents on a farm south of town, her family moved into a home in Elk City, where she grew to adulthood.

She had her elementary school training in Dist. No. 8 in Elk City, and graduated from Valley High School in 1938. In 1946, she moved to Arlington, Va., where she lived and worked with families who had roots in the Elk City neighborhood. In 1952, she went to India as a governess for the Ensminger family. Ensminger was an employee of the Ford Foundation, and after two years, the Ensminger family returned to the United States.

In 1963, at the death of her father, Alice returned to Elk City to make her home with her mother. She became employed at what was then known as the Douglas County Annex and is now the Thomas Fitzgerald Veterans Home, where she worked until her retirement in 1984. She remained in her Elk City home until her health required surgery in November 2000, followed by residence in the Life Care Center of Elkhorn.

Miss Seaver was an avid reader, with a special interest in United States presidential families and other historical biographies. She had a life-long love for the Elk City community; she eagerly gathered information on the history of the town and shared it with others. She maintained membership in the United Methodist Church of Elk City until its closing, and was a member of the Waterloo United Methodist Church at the time of her death. She was an active member of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 266 of Bennington, and of the Bennington Senior Center.

She is survived by a sister, Frieda Morris, and a sister and brother-in-law, all of Fremont, and a brother and sister-in-law, LaRoy and Mary Seaver of Estes Park, Colo., 12 nieces and nephews, many grand- and great-grand nieces and nephews, and a host of friends.

Memorials are suggested to the Waterloo United Methodist Church or Elk City Cemetery. Reichmuth Funeral Homes in Elkhorn are in charge of arrangements.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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