Obituary:
LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE
Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
Friday, 6 May 1977
Tribune co-owner; Cancer claims Alice Matlock
Alice Alford Matlock, 58, vice president of the Tribune Publishing Co., and daughter of the newspaper company's co-founder, died of cancer Thursday [May 5] at 11:30 a.m. at the family home at 631 22nd Ave., Lewiston.
She was married to John H. Matlock, assistant publisher and general manager of the Lewiston Tribune and a long-time Lewiston businessman. Mrs. Matlock's father was the late Eugene L. Alford, co-founder in 1892 of the Lewiston Tribune with his brother, Albert H. Alford. Mrs. Matlock's mother is Alice C. Alford of Lewiston, secretary-treasurer of the Tribune.
Mrs. Matlock was also president of the News-Review Publishing Co. of Moscow, owned in part by Tribune Publishing. News-Review publishes the Daily Idahonian of Moscow and operates News-Review commercial printing at Moscow and Western Printing Center in the Tri-Cities. The Tribune publishes the Lewiston Morning Tribune, the weekly Valley News at Meridian, Idaho, and operates Western Printing Center at Lewiston and Graphic Arts Publishing Inc. of Boise.
Mrs. Matlock was a Tribune news reporter in the early 1940s and during college vacation stints in the late 1930s. She was remembered as a thorough reporter, well-versed in use of the English language, and part of a skeleton World War II news-editorial staff.
In past years Mrs. Matlock retained her interest in the news-editorial operation in particular, maintaining her discipline of earlier years in striving for error-free, detailed reporting.
Mrs. Matlock's illness was diagnosed last October at Seattle. She underwent radiation treatments for a brain tumor through January at a Spokane hospital and had been at her Lewiston home since then.
Mrs. Matlock was born June 1, 1918, at Lewiston and attended Lewiston public schools. She was graduated in 1936 from Lewiston High School. She attended Mills College, a private women's college at Oakland, Calif., for one year and attended the University of Idaho the following three years, graduating in journalism and English with academic honors in 1940. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta social sorority and of Sigma Delta Chi, a journalism honorary.
She married Matlock June 19, 1942 at Lewiston. Following service in World War II, he was a partner in the Diamond Shop, a Lewiston jewelry store, until 1955, and co-founder of Lewis-Clark Broadcasting Co., which operates radio stations KOZE and KOZE-FM at Lewiston, KLER at Orofino and KORT at Grangeville. He sold his interest in the radio stations in 1971 when he joined the Tribune.
Mrs. Matlock was active in Lewiston civic causes over the years. She was a former member of the Lewiston Welfare League, now the Lewiston Service League, the Tsceminicum Club and of Malac Temple, Daughters of the Nile. She was a member of the Church of the Nativity (Episcopal) and active in the Lewiston church's Chancel Guild.
She was one of the region's active contract bridge players and was working toward a rating of life master. She and her husband shared a hobby of raising and breeding schnauzers, a terrier breed dog, and raised a pet, Rebel, which earned national and international championship ranks in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Survivors include her husband John; three sons, Dr. Gordon Alford of Minneapolis, a physician at the University of Minnesota Hospital; Stephen John, editor and publisher of the Valley News at Meridian, and David William of Lewiston, general manager of Lewis & Clark Paper & Supply, Inc. and a granddaughter, Susan, of Minneapolis. Also surviving is a sister, Eugenia A. Hamblin of Lewiston.
Two brothers preceded her in death. They were Gordon Alford, who joined the Tribune advertising department in 1942 and died in a World War II airplane crash, and Albert L. (Bud) Alford, editor and publisher of the Tribune, who died in 1968.
Mrs. Matlock's mother, Alice, remains active and interested in the newspaper and related operations at the age of 94.
Mrs. Matlock's father, Eugene, was the business manager of the Tribune during its early years, and her uncle, Albert, was the editor. Albert died in 1928 and Eugene was the newspaper's publisher until his death in 1946.
When the Alford brothers in 1892 stepped from a river steamer at the Lewiston dock on Snake River Ave., they saw Lewiston for the first time. The ambitious brothers originally from Alford's Bluff, Texas, near Galveston, were directed to Lewiston by a Portland printing machinery dealer. The dealer foresaw the "boom" of the Lewiston area in the anticipated arrival of the railroad and the opening of Nez Perce Indian land to white settlement.
Eugene and Albert, along with three other young men, published the first issue of the four-page weekly Tribune the evening of Sept. 29, 1892. They worked patiently over a second-hand flat-bed press in a rented room on the first floor of the two-story Grostein Hall, the town opera house at 2nd and Main Sts. It is now a parking lot east across the street from the Hotel Lewis-Clark.
The funeral will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of the Nativity, with the Rev. Charles W. May officiating, with burial at Normal Hill Cemetery. Vassar-Rawls Funeral Home is in charge.
The family has suggested that memorials may be made to the Church of the Nativity Memorial Fund.
LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE
Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
Friday, 6 May 1977
Tribune co-owner; Cancer claims Alice Matlock
Alice Alford Matlock, 58, vice president of the Tribune Publishing Co., and daughter of the newspaper company's co-founder, died of cancer Thursday [May 5] at 11:30 a.m. at the family home at 631 22nd Ave., Lewiston.
She was married to John H. Matlock, assistant publisher and general manager of the Lewiston Tribune and a long-time Lewiston businessman. Mrs. Matlock's father was the late Eugene L. Alford, co-founder in 1892 of the Lewiston Tribune with his brother, Albert H. Alford. Mrs. Matlock's mother is Alice C. Alford of Lewiston, secretary-treasurer of the Tribune.
Mrs. Matlock was also president of the News-Review Publishing Co. of Moscow, owned in part by Tribune Publishing. News-Review publishes the Daily Idahonian of Moscow and operates News-Review commercial printing at Moscow and Western Printing Center in the Tri-Cities. The Tribune publishes the Lewiston Morning Tribune, the weekly Valley News at Meridian, Idaho, and operates Western Printing Center at Lewiston and Graphic Arts Publishing Inc. of Boise.
Mrs. Matlock was a Tribune news reporter in the early 1940s and during college vacation stints in the late 1930s. She was remembered as a thorough reporter, well-versed in use of the English language, and part of a skeleton World War II news-editorial staff.
In past years Mrs. Matlock retained her interest in the news-editorial operation in particular, maintaining her discipline of earlier years in striving for error-free, detailed reporting.
Mrs. Matlock's illness was diagnosed last October at Seattle. She underwent radiation treatments for a brain tumor through January at a Spokane hospital and had been at her Lewiston home since then.
Mrs. Matlock was born June 1, 1918, at Lewiston and attended Lewiston public schools. She was graduated in 1936 from Lewiston High School. She attended Mills College, a private women's college at Oakland, Calif., for one year and attended the University of Idaho the following three years, graduating in journalism and English with academic honors in 1940. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta social sorority and of Sigma Delta Chi, a journalism honorary.
She married Matlock June 19, 1942 at Lewiston. Following service in World War II, he was a partner in the Diamond Shop, a Lewiston jewelry store, until 1955, and co-founder of Lewis-Clark Broadcasting Co., which operates radio stations KOZE and KOZE-FM at Lewiston, KLER at Orofino and KORT at Grangeville. He sold his interest in the radio stations in 1971 when he joined the Tribune.
Mrs. Matlock was active in Lewiston civic causes over the years. She was a former member of the Lewiston Welfare League, now the Lewiston Service League, the Tsceminicum Club and of Malac Temple, Daughters of the Nile. She was a member of the Church of the Nativity (Episcopal) and active in the Lewiston church's Chancel Guild.
She was one of the region's active contract bridge players and was working toward a rating of life master. She and her husband shared a hobby of raising and breeding schnauzers, a terrier breed dog, and raised a pet, Rebel, which earned national and international championship ranks in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Survivors include her husband John; three sons, Dr. Gordon Alford of Minneapolis, a physician at the University of Minnesota Hospital; Stephen John, editor and publisher of the Valley News at Meridian, and David William of Lewiston, general manager of Lewis & Clark Paper & Supply, Inc. and a granddaughter, Susan, of Minneapolis. Also surviving is a sister, Eugenia A. Hamblin of Lewiston.
Two brothers preceded her in death. They were Gordon Alford, who joined the Tribune advertising department in 1942 and died in a World War II airplane crash, and Albert L. (Bud) Alford, editor and publisher of the Tribune, who died in 1968.
Mrs. Matlock's mother, Alice, remains active and interested in the newspaper and related operations at the age of 94.
Mrs. Matlock's father, Eugene, was the business manager of the Tribune during its early years, and her uncle, Albert, was the editor. Albert died in 1928 and Eugene was the newspaper's publisher until his death in 1946.
When the Alford brothers in 1892 stepped from a river steamer at the Lewiston dock on Snake River Ave., they saw Lewiston for the first time. The ambitious brothers originally from Alford's Bluff, Texas, near Galveston, were directed to Lewiston by a Portland printing machinery dealer. The dealer foresaw the "boom" of the Lewiston area in the anticipated arrival of the railroad and the opening of Nez Perce Indian land to white settlement.
Eugene and Albert, along with three other young men, published the first issue of the four-page weekly Tribune the evening of Sept. 29, 1892. They worked patiently over a second-hand flat-bed press in a rented room on the first floor of the two-story Grostein Hall, the town opera house at 2nd and Main Sts. It is now a parking lot east across the street from the Hotel Lewis-Clark.
The funeral will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of the Nativity, with the Rev. Charles W. May officiating, with burial at Normal Hill Cemetery. Vassar-Rawls Funeral Home is in charge.
The family has suggested that memorials may be made to the Church of the Nativity Memorial Fund.
Obituary:
LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE
Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
Friday, 6 May 1977
Tribune co-owner; Cancer claims Alice Matlock
Alice Alford Matlock, 58, vice president of the Tribune Publishing Co., and daughter of the newspaper company's co-founder, died of cancer Thursday [May 5] at 11:30 a.m. at the family home at 631 22nd Ave., Lewiston.
She was married to John H. Matlock, assistant publisher and general manager of the Lewiston Tribune and a long-time Lewiston businessman. Mrs. Matlock's father was the late Eugene L. Alford, co-founder in 1892 of the Lewiston Tribune with his brother, Albert H. Alford. Mrs. Matlock's mother is Alice C. Alford of Lewiston, secretary-treasurer of the Tribune.
Mrs. Matlock was also president of the News-Review Publishing Co. of Moscow, owned in part by Tribune Publishing. News-Review publishes the Daily Idahonian of Moscow and operates News-Review commercial printing at Moscow and Western Printing Center in the Tri-Cities. The Tribune publishes the Lewiston Morning Tribune, the weekly Valley News at Meridian, Idaho, and operates Western Printing Center at Lewiston and Graphic Arts Publishing Inc. of Boise.
Mrs. Matlock was a Tribune news reporter in the early 1940s and during college vacation stints in the late 1930s. She was remembered as a thorough reporter, well-versed in use of the English language, and part of a skeleton World War II news-editorial staff.
In past years Mrs. Matlock retained her interest in the news-editorial operation in particular, maintaining her discipline of earlier years in striving for error-free, detailed reporting.
Mrs. Matlock's illness was diagnosed last October at Seattle. She underwent radiation treatments for a brain tumor through January at a Spokane hospital and had been at her Lewiston home since then.
Mrs. Matlock was born June 1, 1918, at Lewiston and attended Lewiston public schools. She was graduated in 1936 from Lewiston High School. She attended Mills College, a private women's college at Oakland, Calif., for one year and attended the University of Idaho the following three years, graduating in journalism and English with academic honors in 1940. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta social sorority and of Sigma Delta Chi, a journalism honorary.
She married Matlock June 19, 1942 at Lewiston. Following service in World War II, he was a partner in the Diamond Shop, a Lewiston jewelry store, until 1955, and co-founder of Lewis-Clark Broadcasting Co., which operates radio stations KOZE and KOZE-FM at Lewiston, KLER at Orofino and KORT at Grangeville. He sold his interest in the radio stations in 1971 when he joined the Tribune.
Mrs. Matlock was active in Lewiston civic causes over the years. She was a former member of the Lewiston Welfare League, now the Lewiston Service League, the Tsceminicum Club and of Malac Temple, Daughters of the Nile. She was a member of the Church of the Nativity (Episcopal) and active in the Lewiston church's Chancel Guild.
She was one of the region's active contract bridge players and was working toward a rating of life master. She and her husband shared a hobby of raising and breeding schnauzers, a terrier breed dog, and raised a pet, Rebel, which earned national and international championship ranks in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Survivors include her husband John; three sons, Dr. Gordon Alford of Minneapolis, a physician at the University of Minnesota Hospital; Stephen John, editor and publisher of the Valley News at Meridian, and David William of Lewiston, general manager of Lewis & Clark Paper & Supply, Inc. and a granddaughter, Susan, of Minneapolis. Also surviving is a sister, Eugenia A. Hamblin of Lewiston.
Two brothers preceded her in death. They were Gordon Alford, who joined the Tribune advertising department in 1942 and died in a World War II airplane crash, and Albert L. (Bud) Alford, editor and publisher of the Tribune, who died in 1968.
Mrs. Matlock's mother, Alice, remains active and interested in the newspaper and related operations at the age of 94.
Mrs. Matlock's father, Eugene, was the business manager of the Tribune during its early years, and her uncle, Albert, was the editor. Albert died in 1928 and Eugene was the newspaper's publisher until his death in 1946.
When the Alford brothers in 1892 stepped from a river steamer at the Lewiston dock on Snake River Ave., they saw Lewiston for the first time. The ambitious brothers originally from Alford's Bluff, Texas, near Galveston, were directed to Lewiston by a Portland printing machinery dealer. The dealer foresaw the "boom" of the Lewiston area in the anticipated arrival of the railroad and the opening of Nez Perce Indian land to white settlement.
Eugene and Albert, along with three other young men, published the first issue of the four-page weekly Tribune the evening of Sept. 29, 1892. They worked patiently over a second-hand flat-bed press in a rented room on the first floor of the two-story Grostein Hall, the town opera house at 2nd and Main Sts. It is now a parking lot east across the street from the Hotel Lewis-Clark.
The funeral will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of the Nativity, with the Rev. Charles W. May officiating, with burial at Normal Hill Cemetery. Vassar-Rawls Funeral Home is in charge.
The family has suggested that memorials may be made to the Church of the Nativity Memorial Fund.
LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE
Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
Friday, 6 May 1977
Tribune co-owner; Cancer claims Alice Matlock
Alice Alford Matlock, 58, vice president of the Tribune Publishing Co., and daughter of the newspaper company's co-founder, died of cancer Thursday [May 5] at 11:30 a.m. at the family home at 631 22nd Ave., Lewiston.
She was married to John H. Matlock, assistant publisher and general manager of the Lewiston Tribune and a long-time Lewiston businessman. Mrs. Matlock's father was the late Eugene L. Alford, co-founder in 1892 of the Lewiston Tribune with his brother, Albert H. Alford. Mrs. Matlock's mother is Alice C. Alford of Lewiston, secretary-treasurer of the Tribune.
Mrs. Matlock was also president of the News-Review Publishing Co. of Moscow, owned in part by Tribune Publishing. News-Review publishes the Daily Idahonian of Moscow and operates News-Review commercial printing at Moscow and Western Printing Center in the Tri-Cities. The Tribune publishes the Lewiston Morning Tribune, the weekly Valley News at Meridian, Idaho, and operates Western Printing Center at Lewiston and Graphic Arts Publishing Inc. of Boise.
Mrs. Matlock was a Tribune news reporter in the early 1940s and during college vacation stints in the late 1930s. She was remembered as a thorough reporter, well-versed in use of the English language, and part of a skeleton World War II news-editorial staff.
In past years Mrs. Matlock retained her interest in the news-editorial operation in particular, maintaining her discipline of earlier years in striving for error-free, detailed reporting.
Mrs. Matlock's illness was diagnosed last October at Seattle. She underwent radiation treatments for a brain tumor through January at a Spokane hospital and had been at her Lewiston home since then.
Mrs. Matlock was born June 1, 1918, at Lewiston and attended Lewiston public schools. She was graduated in 1936 from Lewiston High School. She attended Mills College, a private women's college at Oakland, Calif., for one year and attended the University of Idaho the following three years, graduating in journalism and English with academic honors in 1940. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta social sorority and of Sigma Delta Chi, a journalism honorary.
She married Matlock June 19, 1942 at Lewiston. Following service in World War II, he was a partner in the Diamond Shop, a Lewiston jewelry store, until 1955, and co-founder of Lewis-Clark Broadcasting Co., which operates radio stations KOZE and KOZE-FM at Lewiston, KLER at Orofino and KORT at Grangeville. He sold his interest in the radio stations in 1971 when he joined the Tribune.
Mrs. Matlock was active in Lewiston civic causes over the years. She was a former member of the Lewiston Welfare League, now the Lewiston Service League, the Tsceminicum Club and of Malac Temple, Daughters of the Nile. She was a member of the Church of the Nativity (Episcopal) and active in the Lewiston church's Chancel Guild.
She was one of the region's active contract bridge players and was working toward a rating of life master. She and her husband shared a hobby of raising and breeding schnauzers, a terrier breed dog, and raised a pet, Rebel, which earned national and international championship ranks in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Survivors include her husband John; three sons, Dr. Gordon Alford of Minneapolis, a physician at the University of Minnesota Hospital; Stephen John, editor and publisher of the Valley News at Meridian, and David William of Lewiston, general manager of Lewis & Clark Paper & Supply, Inc. and a granddaughter, Susan, of Minneapolis. Also surviving is a sister, Eugenia A. Hamblin of Lewiston.
Two brothers preceded her in death. They were Gordon Alford, who joined the Tribune advertising department in 1942 and died in a World War II airplane crash, and Albert L. (Bud) Alford, editor and publisher of the Tribune, who died in 1968.
Mrs. Matlock's mother, Alice, remains active and interested in the newspaper and related operations at the age of 94.
Mrs. Matlock's father, Eugene, was the business manager of the Tribune during its early years, and her uncle, Albert, was the editor. Albert died in 1928 and Eugene was the newspaper's publisher until his death in 1946.
When the Alford brothers in 1892 stepped from a river steamer at the Lewiston dock on Snake River Ave., they saw Lewiston for the first time. The ambitious brothers originally from Alford's Bluff, Texas, near Galveston, were directed to Lewiston by a Portland printing machinery dealer. The dealer foresaw the "boom" of the Lewiston area in the anticipated arrival of the railroad and the opening of Nez Perce Indian land to white settlement.
Eugene and Albert, along with three other young men, published the first issue of the four-page weekly Tribune the evening of Sept. 29, 1892. They worked patiently over a second-hand flat-bed press in a rented room on the first floor of the two-story Grostein Hall, the town opera house at 2nd and Main Sts. It is now a parking lot east across the street from the Hotel Lewis-Clark.
The funeral will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of the Nativity, with the Rev. Charles W. May officiating, with burial at Normal Hill Cemetery. Vassar-Rawls Funeral Home is in charge.
The family has suggested that memorials may be made to the Church of the Nativity Memorial Fund.
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