Alice Keene Wilson
Alice Keene (Richardson) Wilson, age 86 years, wife of Dwight Wilson, died Monday, August 10, 2015 at home. Alice was born in 1928 to Hazen and Marjorie Richardson, of Richardson’s Dairy in Middleton, MA. She grew up on the farm and attended Danvers High School, where she graduated as Valedictorian in 1946. Alice attended Simmons College in Boston and graduated with a degree in Chemistry.
Alice lived throughout MA before moving to the Capital Region of upstate NY. She returned to school and earned her Master’s in Library Science degree from SUNY Albany. She worked as a science reference librarian at RPI in Troy, NY for 18 years before retiring to Orleans, MA in 1995.
Throughout her life she had a great love of choral singing, gardening, house design, and travel. Through these activities, she developed many life-long friendships. One of her greatest joys was being a Mother and a Grammy.
Surviving Alice are her husband Dwight of almost 25 years, her daughter Andrea Browne Howell and son-in-law Tim Howell of Ridgefield, CT, her stepchildren Win and Michelene Wilson of Brunswick, NY, Elliott and Lisa Wilson of Glenmont, NY, and Sue Wilson of Corte Madera, CA, her grandchildren Rebecca Howell of Brookline, MA, Victoria and Allie Howell of Ridgefield, CT, CJ and Nicole Wilson of Corte Madera, CA, Corinne Wilson of Albany, NY, Cahill Wilson of Brunswick NY, Matthew and Katy Wilson of Glenmont, NY, and her brother Stephen Richardson of Santa Clara, CA. She is also survived by a large and loving extended family including many cousins, nieces, and nephews. She was the sister of the late Jeanne Richardson Bell, Mary Richardson Polsonetti, and Hazen K. Richardson, and stepmother of the late Rob Wilson and Todd Wilson.
The family would like to thank Hope Hospice of Cape Cod for the compassionate care and support they provided.
There will be a celebration of Alice’s life at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House of Chatham, MA, 819 Main Street, on Saturday August 22nd at 2pm.
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