\\" Grand Forks, N.D. – Alice Mather, 91, of Grand Forks, passed away on Friday, April 7, 2006, at the Larimore Good Samaritan  Center in Larimore, N.D.
  Ethel Alice Muir was born August 21, 1914, in Grand Forks, N.D., to George and Elizabeth Muir. She grew up and attended school in Gilby, graduating from Gilby High in1932.
 After graduation she became a hair dresser and worked at her trade until her marriage to Fred Mather, April 27, 1935 and moved to Davenport, Iowa. They lived in Davenport until 1939, when they moved back to Gilby. They had two children, Carol Ann and Kenneth Douglas.
 Alice continued working as a beautician in her home as well as cooking at the Gilby School. She was the organist at the Presbyterian Church for many years. After Fred retired, they moved to Grand Forks, where Alice worked at the Holsum Thrift Bread Store until she retired.
 Alice was 12 years older than her two younger brothers, Jim and Dave and she delighted in caring for them, often times more than they wanted. They both mentioned time and again how Alice would put them in a tub and scrub them with a brush until the skin was red, as they being boys, loved to play in the dirt. She also liked to dress them up like little girls, but they were too little at that time to resent it, but would cringe when they were older and she showed them pictures of them dressed up in dresses.
 Alice is survived by a son, Kenneth of Grand Forks, N.D.; several grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and great-great-grandchildren; brothers, Clyde (Verle) Hillsboro, N.D., and Jim (Bernice) Winchester Bay, Ore.; and son-in-law, Gordon Haats of St. Hilaire.
 She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Fred; daughter, Carol; sisters, Carol and Janet Elizabeth, brothers, Douglas, Scott and David.
 Memorial Contributions are preferred to the American Cancer Society. Interment was held at Prairie Home Cemetery in  Gilby, N.D. Amundson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, www.amundsonfuneralhome.com.
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