Father: Marion Sims Wyeth (1889 - 1982)
Mother: Eleanor (Orr) Wyeth
Spouse: Henry Noyes Barkhausen (1915–2018), son of Miriam Barkhausen m. 1941
Daughter: Sarah (Barkhausen) Rossiter
Daughter: Joan (Barkhausen) Grubin
Son: Henry Barkhausen
Son: David Barkhausen
Son: John Barkhausen
Sister: Florence (Wyeth) Johnson (1916–2006)
Sister: Joan (Wyeth) Griggs (1921-2011)
Brother: Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr. (1926-2011)
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Alice Barkhausen
By Harbor Light News Staff | on December 16, 2020
Alice Wyeth Barkhausen, long-time summer resident with her husband, Henry, died peacefully in Lake Forest, Illinois on December 10th a week after her 101st birthday.
The second of four children of Eleanor Orr and Marion Sims Wyeth, she was born in New York in 1919 and raised in Palm Beach, Florida where her father was a noted architect, beginning in the heyday of the 1920's. As a child, she loved the natural life of sparsely developed Florida, playing outdoors with her siblings.
After attending the Shipley School near Philadelphia, Alice took art lessons during a year abroad and then attended the Parsons School of Design in New York, training she would come to use much later in life.
She renewed a childhood acquaintance with Henry Barkhausen, whom she had known slightly at a much younger age, when he came to Florida many years later to help sell his family's vacation home after his father died. They married in June,1941 on short notice when Henry received his orders to report for active duty in the Navy.
In writing his Barkhausen grandparents about his 21-year-old bride's many attributes, Henry stressed that "she is a really good cook." On a portion of their honeymoon, she also proved that she was game for his adventurous sailing under very spartan conditions – in his mostly open wooden boat with no plumbing, an open-air galley, and just nine feet decked over in the bow above their sleeping bags, a boat on which they would later cruise in early post-war years all the way to the north shore of Lake Superior. Henry had found his true soul mate.
The first of five children, daughters Sarah and Joan, were born during and at the end of the war. During Henry's war-time absence in the Pacific, Alice's earliest visits to Harbor Point were spent with her mother-in-law, Miriam Barkhausen and often with her sisters-in-law, Helen Perry and Kate Geraghty.
After settling in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1946, sons Henry, David, and John came along in subsequent years. While raising her five children, Alice enjoyed an active life and honed her talents as a largely self-taught naturalist, an interest she fully indulged in Harbor Springs life.
After Henry started a limestone quarry business in Anna in far southern Illinois in 1962, he and Alice built a small house on a hill farm near the Shawnee National Forest. There, Alice took up riding horses more seriously, including jumping and occasional fox hunting and relished the outdoor life. For a number of years, she and Henry trailed her favorite riding horse all the way to Harbor Springs and enjoyed riding over the hills north of town.
Throughout their married life, Alice shared Henry's love for cruising the northern Great Lakes on their wooden sailboats. From the mooring off their Harbor Point cottage, they would head north and east to the beautiful Canadian waters of Lake Huron's North Channel and Georgian Bay and occasionally to Lake Superior, with their children in their younger years and into very advanced ages for month-long cruises with no crew.
Henry couldn't and wouldn't have pursued his passionate interest without her. It was a physically challenging activity that she enjoyed as much as he did, and from which she was the most reluctant to retire when they finally did at her age 87 and his of 92, and their gaff-rigged cutter, Champion, was donated to the Maritime Heritage Alliance in Traverse City. Through their last summer at the Point in 2017, at ages 97 and 102, Alice and Henry could still be seen heading out with family members for afternoon sails on Henry's self-made schooner, Good News, and, in the evenings, making their way slowly up the walk towards the casino and back along the bayside.
In her later years, including after suffering a serious stroke in 2007 from which she substantially recovered, Alice returned to her early interest in art, painting watercolor still lifes and landscapes. With or without her trademark binoculars, she remained a keen observer of the world around her and had the sensibilities of the artist and naturalist she was. With Henry's encouragement and organization, she continued taking art classes into her late 90's at Harbor Point as well as Lake Forest where her work was exhibited in their senior living facility.
Alice's children and grandchildren most fondly remember her playful personality and whimsical sense of humor that she retained to her last days. Modest to a fault, she always deflected the most deserved compliments. Her family members have all inherited her love of nature and the outdoors without beginning to match her knowledge.
Alice was predeceased by Henry in 2018 and by her three siblings Florence Johnson, Joan Griggs, and Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr. She is survived by her five children: Sarah (Ned) Rossiter of Concord, MA; Joan (David) Grubin of New York City; Henry (Lele) of Winnetka; David (Sue) of Fernandina Beach, FL; and John (Deborah) of Warren, VT, as well as eleven grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren.
The family expresses their love and gratitude to Rosalind Edwards, who has helped Alice and Henry for the past thirteen years and spent summers away from her family with them at Harbor Point, and their deep appreciation to additional caregivers and the staff in the Memory Care unit at Lake Forest Place.
A memorial gathering will be scheduled next summer in Harbor Springs. Any memorial contributions can be made to the Little Traverse Conservancy, the Sail Champion program of the Maritime Heritage Alliance, or a charity of choice.
Mother: Eleanor (Orr) Wyeth
Spouse: Henry Noyes Barkhausen (1915–2018), son of Miriam Barkhausen m. 1941
Daughter: Sarah (Barkhausen) Rossiter
Daughter: Joan (Barkhausen) Grubin
Son: Henry Barkhausen
Son: David Barkhausen
Son: John Barkhausen
Sister: Florence (Wyeth) Johnson (1916–2006)
Sister: Joan (Wyeth) Griggs (1921-2011)
Brother: Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr. (1926-2011)
__________________________________________________________
Alice Barkhausen
By Harbor Light News Staff | on December 16, 2020
Alice Wyeth Barkhausen, long-time summer resident with her husband, Henry, died peacefully in Lake Forest, Illinois on December 10th a week after her 101st birthday.
The second of four children of Eleanor Orr and Marion Sims Wyeth, she was born in New York in 1919 and raised in Palm Beach, Florida where her father was a noted architect, beginning in the heyday of the 1920's. As a child, she loved the natural life of sparsely developed Florida, playing outdoors with her siblings.
After attending the Shipley School near Philadelphia, Alice took art lessons during a year abroad and then attended the Parsons School of Design in New York, training she would come to use much later in life.
She renewed a childhood acquaintance with Henry Barkhausen, whom she had known slightly at a much younger age, when he came to Florida many years later to help sell his family's vacation home after his father died. They married in June,1941 on short notice when Henry received his orders to report for active duty in the Navy.
In writing his Barkhausen grandparents about his 21-year-old bride's many attributes, Henry stressed that "she is a really good cook." On a portion of their honeymoon, she also proved that she was game for his adventurous sailing under very spartan conditions – in his mostly open wooden boat with no plumbing, an open-air galley, and just nine feet decked over in the bow above their sleeping bags, a boat on which they would later cruise in early post-war years all the way to the north shore of Lake Superior. Henry had found his true soul mate.
The first of five children, daughters Sarah and Joan, were born during and at the end of the war. During Henry's war-time absence in the Pacific, Alice's earliest visits to Harbor Point were spent with her mother-in-law, Miriam Barkhausen and often with her sisters-in-law, Helen Perry and Kate Geraghty.
After settling in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1946, sons Henry, David, and John came along in subsequent years. While raising her five children, Alice enjoyed an active life and honed her talents as a largely self-taught naturalist, an interest she fully indulged in Harbor Springs life.
After Henry started a limestone quarry business in Anna in far southern Illinois in 1962, he and Alice built a small house on a hill farm near the Shawnee National Forest. There, Alice took up riding horses more seriously, including jumping and occasional fox hunting and relished the outdoor life. For a number of years, she and Henry trailed her favorite riding horse all the way to Harbor Springs and enjoyed riding over the hills north of town.
Throughout their married life, Alice shared Henry's love for cruising the northern Great Lakes on their wooden sailboats. From the mooring off their Harbor Point cottage, they would head north and east to the beautiful Canadian waters of Lake Huron's North Channel and Georgian Bay and occasionally to Lake Superior, with their children in their younger years and into very advanced ages for month-long cruises with no crew.
Henry couldn't and wouldn't have pursued his passionate interest without her. It was a physically challenging activity that she enjoyed as much as he did, and from which she was the most reluctant to retire when they finally did at her age 87 and his of 92, and their gaff-rigged cutter, Champion, was donated to the Maritime Heritage Alliance in Traverse City. Through their last summer at the Point in 2017, at ages 97 and 102, Alice and Henry could still be seen heading out with family members for afternoon sails on Henry's self-made schooner, Good News, and, in the evenings, making their way slowly up the walk towards the casino and back along the bayside.
In her later years, including after suffering a serious stroke in 2007 from which she substantially recovered, Alice returned to her early interest in art, painting watercolor still lifes and landscapes. With or without her trademark binoculars, she remained a keen observer of the world around her and had the sensibilities of the artist and naturalist she was. With Henry's encouragement and organization, she continued taking art classes into her late 90's at Harbor Point as well as Lake Forest where her work was exhibited in their senior living facility.
Alice's children and grandchildren most fondly remember her playful personality and whimsical sense of humor that she retained to her last days. Modest to a fault, she always deflected the most deserved compliments. Her family members have all inherited her love of nature and the outdoors without beginning to match her knowledge.
Alice was predeceased by Henry in 2018 and by her three siblings Florence Johnson, Joan Griggs, and Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr. She is survived by her five children: Sarah (Ned) Rossiter of Concord, MA; Joan (David) Grubin of New York City; Henry (Lele) of Winnetka; David (Sue) of Fernandina Beach, FL; and John (Deborah) of Warren, VT, as well as eleven grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren.
The family expresses their love and gratitude to Rosalind Edwards, who has helped Alice and Henry for the past thirteen years and spent summers away from her family with them at Harbor Point, and their deep appreciation to additional caregivers and the staff in the Memory Care unit at Lake Forest Place.
A memorial gathering will be scheduled next summer in Harbor Springs. Any memorial contributions can be made to the Little Traverse Conservancy, the Sail Champion program of the Maritime Heritage Alliance, or a charity of choice.
Father: Marion Sims Wyeth (1889 - 1982)
Mother: Eleanor (Orr) Wyeth
Spouse: Henry Noyes Barkhausen (1915–2018), son of Miriam Barkhausen m. 1941
Daughter: Sarah (Barkhausen) Rossiter
Daughter: Joan (Barkhausen) Grubin
Son: Henry Barkhausen
Son: David Barkhausen
Son: John Barkhausen
Sister: Florence (Wyeth) Johnson (1916–2006)
Sister: Joan (Wyeth) Griggs (1921-2011)
Brother: Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr. (1926-2011)
__________________________________________________________
Alice Barkhausen
By Harbor Light News Staff | on December 16, 2020
Alice Wyeth Barkhausen, long-time summer resident with her husband, Henry, died peacefully in Lake Forest, Illinois on December 10th a week after her 101st birthday.
The second of four children of Eleanor Orr and Marion Sims Wyeth, she was born in New York in 1919 and raised in Palm Beach, Florida where her father was a noted architect, beginning in the heyday of the 1920's. As a child, she loved the natural life of sparsely developed Florida, playing outdoors with her siblings.
After attending the Shipley School near Philadelphia, Alice took art lessons during a year abroad and then attended the Parsons School of Design in New York, training she would come to use much later in life.
She renewed a childhood acquaintance with Henry Barkhausen, whom she had known slightly at a much younger age, when he came to Florida many years later to help sell his family's vacation home after his father died. They married in June,1941 on short notice when Henry received his orders to report for active duty in the Navy.
In writing his Barkhausen grandparents about his 21-year-old bride's many attributes, Henry stressed that "she is a really good cook." On a portion of their honeymoon, she also proved that she was game for his adventurous sailing under very spartan conditions – in his mostly open wooden boat with no plumbing, an open-air galley, and just nine feet decked over in the bow above their sleeping bags, a boat on which they would later cruise in early post-war years all the way to the north shore of Lake Superior. Henry had found his true soul mate.
The first of five children, daughters Sarah and Joan, were born during and at the end of the war. During Henry's war-time absence in the Pacific, Alice's earliest visits to Harbor Point were spent with her mother-in-law, Miriam Barkhausen and often with her sisters-in-law, Helen Perry and Kate Geraghty.
After settling in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1946, sons Henry, David, and John came along in subsequent years. While raising her five children, Alice enjoyed an active life and honed her talents as a largely self-taught naturalist, an interest she fully indulged in Harbor Springs life.
After Henry started a limestone quarry business in Anna in far southern Illinois in 1962, he and Alice built a small house on a hill farm near the Shawnee National Forest. There, Alice took up riding horses more seriously, including jumping and occasional fox hunting and relished the outdoor life. For a number of years, she and Henry trailed her favorite riding horse all the way to Harbor Springs and enjoyed riding over the hills north of town.
Throughout their married life, Alice shared Henry's love for cruising the northern Great Lakes on their wooden sailboats. From the mooring off their Harbor Point cottage, they would head north and east to the beautiful Canadian waters of Lake Huron's North Channel and Georgian Bay and occasionally to Lake Superior, with their children in their younger years and into very advanced ages for month-long cruises with no crew.
Henry couldn't and wouldn't have pursued his passionate interest without her. It was a physically challenging activity that she enjoyed as much as he did, and from which she was the most reluctant to retire when they finally did at her age 87 and his of 92, and their gaff-rigged cutter, Champion, was donated to the Maritime Heritage Alliance in Traverse City. Through their last summer at the Point in 2017, at ages 97 and 102, Alice and Henry could still be seen heading out with family members for afternoon sails on Henry's self-made schooner, Good News, and, in the evenings, making their way slowly up the walk towards the casino and back along the bayside.
In her later years, including after suffering a serious stroke in 2007 from which she substantially recovered, Alice returned to her early interest in art, painting watercolor still lifes and landscapes. With or without her trademark binoculars, she remained a keen observer of the world around her and had the sensibilities of the artist and naturalist she was. With Henry's encouragement and organization, she continued taking art classes into her late 90's at Harbor Point as well as Lake Forest where her work was exhibited in their senior living facility.
Alice's children and grandchildren most fondly remember her playful personality and whimsical sense of humor that she retained to her last days. Modest to a fault, she always deflected the most deserved compliments. Her family members have all inherited her love of nature and the outdoors without beginning to match her knowledge.
Alice was predeceased by Henry in 2018 and by her three siblings Florence Johnson, Joan Griggs, and Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr. She is survived by her five children: Sarah (Ned) Rossiter of Concord, MA; Joan (David) Grubin of New York City; Henry (Lele) of Winnetka; David (Sue) of Fernandina Beach, FL; and John (Deborah) of Warren, VT, as well as eleven grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren.
The family expresses their love and gratitude to Rosalind Edwards, who has helped Alice and Henry for the past thirteen years and spent summers away from her family with them at Harbor Point, and their deep appreciation to additional caregivers and the staff in the Memory Care unit at Lake Forest Place.
A memorial gathering will be scheduled next summer in Harbor Springs. Any memorial contributions can be made to the Little Traverse Conservancy, the Sail Champion program of the Maritime Heritage Alliance, or a charity of choice.
Mother: Eleanor (Orr) Wyeth
Spouse: Henry Noyes Barkhausen (1915–2018), son of Miriam Barkhausen m. 1941
Daughter: Sarah (Barkhausen) Rossiter
Daughter: Joan (Barkhausen) Grubin
Son: Henry Barkhausen
Son: David Barkhausen
Son: John Barkhausen
Sister: Florence (Wyeth) Johnson (1916–2006)
Sister: Joan (Wyeth) Griggs (1921-2011)
Brother: Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr. (1926-2011)
__________________________________________________________
Alice Barkhausen
By Harbor Light News Staff | on December 16, 2020
Alice Wyeth Barkhausen, long-time summer resident with her husband, Henry, died peacefully in Lake Forest, Illinois on December 10th a week after her 101st birthday.
The second of four children of Eleanor Orr and Marion Sims Wyeth, she was born in New York in 1919 and raised in Palm Beach, Florida where her father was a noted architect, beginning in the heyday of the 1920's. As a child, she loved the natural life of sparsely developed Florida, playing outdoors with her siblings.
After attending the Shipley School near Philadelphia, Alice took art lessons during a year abroad and then attended the Parsons School of Design in New York, training she would come to use much later in life.
She renewed a childhood acquaintance with Henry Barkhausen, whom she had known slightly at a much younger age, when he came to Florida many years later to help sell his family's vacation home after his father died. They married in June,1941 on short notice when Henry received his orders to report for active duty in the Navy.
In writing his Barkhausen grandparents about his 21-year-old bride's many attributes, Henry stressed that "she is a really good cook." On a portion of their honeymoon, she also proved that she was game for his adventurous sailing under very spartan conditions – in his mostly open wooden boat with no plumbing, an open-air galley, and just nine feet decked over in the bow above their sleeping bags, a boat on which they would later cruise in early post-war years all the way to the north shore of Lake Superior. Henry had found his true soul mate.
The first of five children, daughters Sarah and Joan, were born during and at the end of the war. During Henry's war-time absence in the Pacific, Alice's earliest visits to Harbor Point were spent with her mother-in-law, Miriam Barkhausen and often with her sisters-in-law, Helen Perry and Kate Geraghty.
After settling in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1946, sons Henry, David, and John came along in subsequent years. While raising her five children, Alice enjoyed an active life and honed her talents as a largely self-taught naturalist, an interest she fully indulged in Harbor Springs life.
After Henry started a limestone quarry business in Anna in far southern Illinois in 1962, he and Alice built a small house on a hill farm near the Shawnee National Forest. There, Alice took up riding horses more seriously, including jumping and occasional fox hunting and relished the outdoor life. For a number of years, she and Henry trailed her favorite riding horse all the way to Harbor Springs and enjoyed riding over the hills north of town.
Throughout their married life, Alice shared Henry's love for cruising the northern Great Lakes on their wooden sailboats. From the mooring off their Harbor Point cottage, they would head north and east to the beautiful Canadian waters of Lake Huron's North Channel and Georgian Bay and occasionally to Lake Superior, with their children in their younger years and into very advanced ages for month-long cruises with no crew.
Henry couldn't and wouldn't have pursued his passionate interest without her. It was a physically challenging activity that she enjoyed as much as he did, and from which she was the most reluctant to retire when they finally did at her age 87 and his of 92, and their gaff-rigged cutter, Champion, was donated to the Maritime Heritage Alliance in Traverse City. Through their last summer at the Point in 2017, at ages 97 and 102, Alice and Henry could still be seen heading out with family members for afternoon sails on Henry's self-made schooner, Good News, and, in the evenings, making their way slowly up the walk towards the casino and back along the bayside.
In her later years, including after suffering a serious stroke in 2007 from which she substantially recovered, Alice returned to her early interest in art, painting watercolor still lifes and landscapes. With or without her trademark binoculars, she remained a keen observer of the world around her and had the sensibilities of the artist and naturalist she was. With Henry's encouragement and organization, she continued taking art classes into her late 90's at Harbor Point as well as Lake Forest where her work was exhibited in their senior living facility.
Alice's children and grandchildren most fondly remember her playful personality and whimsical sense of humor that she retained to her last days. Modest to a fault, she always deflected the most deserved compliments. Her family members have all inherited her love of nature and the outdoors without beginning to match her knowledge.
Alice was predeceased by Henry in 2018 and by her three siblings Florence Johnson, Joan Griggs, and Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr. She is survived by her five children: Sarah (Ned) Rossiter of Concord, MA; Joan (David) Grubin of New York City; Henry (Lele) of Winnetka; David (Sue) of Fernandina Beach, FL; and John (Deborah) of Warren, VT, as well as eleven grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren.
The family expresses their love and gratitude to Rosalind Edwards, who has helped Alice and Henry for the past thirteen years and spent summers away from her family with them at Harbor Point, and their deep appreciation to additional caregivers and the staff in the Memory Care unit at Lake Forest Place.
A memorial gathering will be scheduled next summer in Harbor Springs. Any memorial contributions can be made to the Little Traverse Conservancy, the Sail Champion program of the Maritime Heritage Alliance, or a charity of choice.
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