ALICE SHORT (nee Howell), Age 97. Alice Short was born Alice Howell, July 5th 1917 in Philadelphia to Zophar and Louise Howell. She was the third of four daughters born to the couple. The Howell family had owned a very successful Philadelphia wallpaper manufacturing business since the early 1800's and Zopher Howell had spent his youth traveling the world. Shortly after Alice was born he decided to take his young family west, from Philadelphia to Seattle, to seek his own fortune.
Alice and her family moved to Edmunds, Washington in 1919, a small hamlet of 1000 people, just north of Seattle. Her father formed the first chamber of commerce for Edmunds and was active in community growth efforts. Unfortunately Zopher Howell died unexpectedly a little over 10 years later, in 1931, of a heart attack. It was the height of the depression and it ushered in a difficult time for Alice, her mother and her sisters.
Alice was thirteen when her father died and to help with family finances, she boarded in with a local physician as a kind of an "au pair" and tutor for their daughter. Alice excelled at both being an exceptional student herself. She had been promoted a grade in junior high and was described in her year books as "that brainy one". The brains paid off when she a received scholarship to the University of Washington where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938. When not studying, Alice spent her spare time skiing on Mount Rainier.
Alice met James (Gil) Short, a Harvard educated lawyer, in 1941. Gil had joined the FBI, after graduating, in 1940 and spent 38 years there, as a special agent. They were married on Valentine's Day 1942, just 2 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The young FBI agent was transferred from Seattle to Pocatello Idaho to provide additional security for the U.S. Navy gun plant. Alice worked in the administration offices of the plant, where the 16" guns from Pacific based battleships were brought to have their internal rifling restored. Shortly thereafter Gil was transferred to San Francisco to work wartime counter espionage on the west coast and Alice became a homemaker.
Their first child, James, was born in May of 1945, followed two years later with a daughter Catherine. In 1950, Gil was transferred to Washington DC where they had their third child, Gerald in 1951. In 1958 Gil transferred to Cleveland to be near his ailing mother and the family settled in Lakewood. As her kids got older, Alice took on part time jobs in the administration offices of the Lakewood school system. Later she worked for the Internal Revenue Service answering questions from confused tax payers. Alice lived for almost 50 years in Lakewood before moving to Rocky River where she now resides.
Alice had the same urge to travel that her father had and the Short family spent many summers on extended camping trips from Maine to the southwest and everywhere in-between. Later as the kids got older, camping trips were replaced with trips to Europe. After Gil retired in 1978, the couple sans the kids, traveled to Europe quite regularly, right up into the early 1990's.
Alice's husband, Gil, passed away in 1997 but her three children are alive and well. James in San Francisco, Catherine in Seattle and Gerald, just 2 miles away in Westlake, Ohio. Alice has 4 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Alice passed away Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, November 15 at St. Christopher Church 20141 Detroit Rd. at 11:00 a.m. (PLEASE MEET AT CHURCH). Interment Lakewood Park Cemetery. Friends may call in THE McGORRAY-HANNA FUNERAL HOME OF WESTLAKE 25620 CENTER RIDGE RD. (WEST OF COLUMBIA) FRIDAY 6-8 PM.
Alice and her family moved to Edmunds, Washington in 1919, a small hamlet of 1000 people, just north of Seattle. Her father formed the first chamber of commerce for Edmunds and was active in community growth efforts. Unfortunately Zopher Howell died unexpectedly a little over 10 years later, in 1931, of a heart attack. It was the height of the depression and it ushered in a difficult time for Alice, her mother and her sisters.
Alice was thirteen when her father died and to help with family finances, she boarded in with a local physician as a kind of an "au pair" and tutor for their daughter. Alice excelled at both being an exceptional student herself. She had been promoted a grade in junior high and was described in her year books as "that brainy one". The brains paid off when she a received scholarship to the University of Washington where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938. When not studying, Alice spent her spare time skiing on Mount Rainier.
Alice met James (Gil) Short, a Harvard educated lawyer, in 1941. Gil had joined the FBI, after graduating, in 1940 and spent 38 years there, as a special agent. They were married on Valentine's Day 1942, just 2 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The young FBI agent was transferred from Seattle to Pocatello Idaho to provide additional security for the U.S. Navy gun plant. Alice worked in the administration offices of the plant, where the 16" guns from Pacific based battleships were brought to have their internal rifling restored. Shortly thereafter Gil was transferred to San Francisco to work wartime counter espionage on the west coast and Alice became a homemaker.
Their first child, James, was born in May of 1945, followed two years later with a daughter Catherine. In 1950, Gil was transferred to Washington DC where they had their third child, Gerald in 1951. In 1958 Gil transferred to Cleveland to be near his ailing mother and the family settled in Lakewood. As her kids got older, Alice took on part time jobs in the administration offices of the Lakewood school system. Later she worked for the Internal Revenue Service answering questions from confused tax payers. Alice lived for almost 50 years in Lakewood before moving to Rocky River where she now resides.
Alice had the same urge to travel that her father had and the Short family spent many summers on extended camping trips from Maine to the southwest and everywhere in-between. Later as the kids got older, camping trips were replaced with trips to Europe. After Gil retired in 1978, the couple sans the kids, traveled to Europe quite regularly, right up into the early 1990's.
Alice's husband, Gil, passed away in 1997 but her three children are alive and well. James in San Francisco, Catherine in Seattle and Gerald, just 2 miles away in Westlake, Ohio. Alice has 4 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Alice passed away Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, November 15 at St. Christopher Church 20141 Detroit Rd. at 11:00 a.m. (PLEASE MEET AT CHURCH). Interment Lakewood Park Cemetery. Friends may call in THE McGORRAY-HANNA FUNERAL HOME OF WESTLAKE 25620 CENTER RIDGE RD. (WEST OF COLUMBIA) FRIDAY 6-8 PM.
ALICE SHORT (nee Howell), Age 97. Alice Short was born Alice Howell, July 5th 1917 in Philadelphia to Zophar and Louise Howell. She was the third of four daughters born to the couple. The Howell family had owned a very successful Philadelphia wallpaper manufacturing business since the early 1800's and Zopher Howell had spent his youth traveling the world. Shortly after Alice was born he decided to take his young family west, from Philadelphia to Seattle, to seek his own fortune.
Alice and her family moved to Edmunds, Washington in 1919, a small hamlet of 1000 people, just north of Seattle. Her father formed the first chamber of commerce for Edmunds and was active in community growth efforts. Unfortunately Zopher Howell died unexpectedly a little over 10 years later, in 1931, of a heart attack. It was the height of the depression and it ushered in a difficult time for Alice, her mother and her sisters.
Alice was thirteen when her father died and to help with family finances, she boarded in with a local physician as a kind of an "au pair" and tutor for their daughter. Alice excelled at both being an exceptional student herself. She had been promoted a grade in junior high and was described in her year books as "that brainy one". The brains paid off when she a received scholarship to the University of Washington where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938. When not studying, Alice spent her spare time skiing on Mount Rainier.
Alice met James (Gil) Short, a Harvard educated lawyer, in 1941. Gil had joined the FBI, after graduating, in 1940 and spent 38 years there, as a special agent. They were married on Valentine's Day 1942, just 2 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The young FBI agent was transferred from Seattle to Pocatello Idaho to provide additional security for the U.S. Navy gun plant. Alice worked in the administration offices of the plant, where the 16" guns from Pacific based battleships were brought to have their internal rifling restored. Shortly thereafter Gil was transferred to San Francisco to work wartime counter espionage on the west coast and Alice became a homemaker.
Their first child, James, was born in May of 1945, followed two years later with a daughter Catherine. In 1950, Gil was transferred to Washington DC where they had their third child, Gerald in 1951. In 1958 Gil transferred to Cleveland to be near his ailing mother and the family settled in Lakewood. As her kids got older, Alice took on part time jobs in the administration offices of the Lakewood school system. Later she worked for the Internal Revenue Service answering questions from confused tax payers. Alice lived for almost 50 years in Lakewood before moving to Rocky River where she now resides.
Alice had the same urge to travel that her father had and the Short family spent many summers on extended camping trips from Maine to the southwest and everywhere in-between. Later as the kids got older, camping trips were replaced with trips to Europe. After Gil retired in 1978, the couple sans the kids, traveled to Europe quite regularly, right up into the early 1990's.
Alice's husband, Gil, passed away in 1997 but her three children are alive and well. James in San Francisco, Catherine in Seattle and Gerald, just 2 miles away in Westlake, Ohio. Alice has 4 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Alice passed away Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, November 15 at St. Christopher Church 20141 Detroit Rd. at 11:00 a.m. (PLEASE MEET AT CHURCH). Interment Lakewood Park Cemetery. Friends may call in THE McGORRAY-HANNA FUNERAL HOME OF WESTLAKE 25620 CENTER RIDGE RD. (WEST OF COLUMBIA) FRIDAY 6-8 PM.
Alice and her family moved to Edmunds, Washington in 1919, a small hamlet of 1000 people, just north of Seattle. Her father formed the first chamber of commerce for Edmunds and was active in community growth efforts. Unfortunately Zopher Howell died unexpectedly a little over 10 years later, in 1931, of a heart attack. It was the height of the depression and it ushered in a difficult time for Alice, her mother and her sisters.
Alice was thirteen when her father died and to help with family finances, she boarded in with a local physician as a kind of an "au pair" and tutor for their daughter. Alice excelled at both being an exceptional student herself. She had been promoted a grade in junior high and was described in her year books as "that brainy one". The brains paid off when she a received scholarship to the University of Washington where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938. When not studying, Alice spent her spare time skiing on Mount Rainier.
Alice met James (Gil) Short, a Harvard educated lawyer, in 1941. Gil had joined the FBI, after graduating, in 1940 and spent 38 years there, as a special agent. They were married on Valentine's Day 1942, just 2 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The young FBI agent was transferred from Seattle to Pocatello Idaho to provide additional security for the U.S. Navy gun plant. Alice worked in the administration offices of the plant, where the 16" guns from Pacific based battleships were brought to have their internal rifling restored. Shortly thereafter Gil was transferred to San Francisco to work wartime counter espionage on the west coast and Alice became a homemaker.
Their first child, James, was born in May of 1945, followed two years later with a daughter Catherine. In 1950, Gil was transferred to Washington DC where they had their third child, Gerald in 1951. In 1958 Gil transferred to Cleveland to be near his ailing mother and the family settled in Lakewood. As her kids got older, Alice took on part time jobs in the administration offices of the Lakewood school system. Later she worked for the Internal Revenue Service answering questions from confused tax payers. Alice lived for almost 50 years in Lakewood before moving to Rocky River where she now resides.
Alice had the same urge to travel that her father had and the Short family spent many summers on extended camping trips from Maine to the southwest and everywhere in-between. Later as the kids got older, camping trips were replaced with trips to Europe. After Gil retired in 1978, the couple sans the kids, traveled to Europe quite regularly, right up into the early 1990's.
Alice's husband, Gil, passed away in 1997 but her three children are alive and well. James in San Francisco, Catherine in Seattle and Gerald, just 2 miles away in Westlake, Ohio. Alice has 4 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Alice passed away Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, November 15 at St. Christopher Church 20141 Detroit Rd. at 11:00 a.m. (PLEASE MEET AT CHURCH). Interment Lakewood Park Cemetery. Friends may call in THE McGORRAY-HANNA FUNERAL HOME OF WESTLAKE 25620 CENTER RIDGE RD. (WEST OF COLUMBIA) FRIDAY 6-8 PM.
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