Alice Mary Hyde

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she lost both parents at a young age and was raised by

relatives James and Geraldine Smith of West Roxbury and Scituate, Massachusetts.

A graduate of Mount St. Joseph Academy in Brighton, Massachusetts, her first job was an

executive assistant in the City of Boston’s Treasury Department. There, she met her future

husband: James J. Hyde of Boston. He was deputy city treasurer at the time of his death in

1986.

A stay-at-home parent while her children attended school in Braintree, Massachusetts, Alice

returned to the workforce as an executive assistant – first, at an insurance agency in

Braintree and later for the Massachusetts State Lottery.

Upon retirement, she relocated to Cary, and after stays in Chicago, Illinois and Wilmington,

North Carolina, returned to Cary as a resident of Waltonwood Cary Parkway.

Independent and outspoken to the last, she had a lifelong love of shopping, travel and dogs

and in her later years enjoyed doing word puzzles and watching movies. Like her husband, she

enjoyed being near the water and the family spent much time on Cape Cod and at Lake

Ossipee, New Hampshire.

She is survived by her son Jay and his wife, Anne, of Sarasota, Florida daughter Paula Deacy

and her husband Brian, of Cary, two grandchildren, Kate Firrincieli and Brett Deacy, grandsonin-

law Mike Firrincieli and a great-granddaughter, Ava Firrincieli.

Alice’s family extends special thanks to her former caregiver, Gail Leed of Apex, as well as to

the staff of Waltonwood Cary Parkway.

There will be a private funeral service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the SPCA

of Wake County.