Submitted by: Dan Rich

Alice-Mary Britton

Jan. 19, 1923 - Feb. 8, 2001

South Bend Tribune 2/13/2001

Alice-Mary Britton, 78, of Pine Island, Fla., passed away of congestive heart failure on Thursday, Feb. 8, in Cape Coral Hospital, Cape Coral, Fla. Mrs. Britton was born on Jan. 19, 1923, to Wilbur and Madge Nichols in Peru, Ind.

On Dec. 11, 1954, Alice-Mary married Lawrence J. Britton of Mishawaka, Ind., in the Methodist Church of South Bend, Ind. They had two children, Verne Britton of Morgantown, W.Va., and Beth Britton of Mishawaka, who survives, as does her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Britton resided at 918 Lincoln Way West in Mishawaka for 44 years before retiring to Pine Island in the Ft. Myers, Fla., area.

Visitation will be held from 1 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, in the Chapel Hill Funeral Home in Osceola, Ind. Services will be conducted on Friday, Feb. 16, at 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel Hill Funeral Home, with interment to follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens.

Alice-Mary graduated from Epworth Hospital School of Nursing (now Memorial Hospital) in 1944, and later received a B.S. degree in education from Indiana University in 1954. She worked as a nurse at Epworth Hospital, as St. Joseph County Public Health Nurse, and as a school nurse first for the South Bend and later Mishawaka school systems. She retired in 1979 from Mishawaka School City, having also served as NEA local president and union negotiator during her career.

She was a longtime member of the Eastern Star Rose Croix Chapter 575 and past Worthy Matron; was former treasurer of the St. Joseph Rifle and Pistol Association; and statistical office assistant at the WA-KA-DE shooting range in Bristol, Ind. She was also a member of the Central Indiana Folk Music and Mountain Dulcimer Society. She established the H&R Block Income Tax office in New Carlisle in 1980. The Brittons retired to Florida in 1995 where Alice-Mary continued her music interests with the mandolin and violin. She was a member of the Gulf Coast Mandolin Ensemble, the City of Ft. Myers String Band, the Lee County Fiddle Support Group, and the Pine Island Trio. She was a volunteer in the IRS VITA program on Pine Island. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the charity of your choice.