Alice Maurine Weaver Sekanick died of natural causes at her home in Richardson, TX on May 20, 2020. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Lloyd (Bill) Sekanick, her son-in-law, Joe Lee Stout, her mother, Eula Mae Hutchison Weaver, her father, Henry Clay Weaver, her sisters, Doris Jean (Dolly) Weaver Martin, Gretchen Miami (Cubby) Weaver Blazi, and Patricia Ann (Tish) Weaver, as well as her grandparents, who raised her after her parents’ death, Eula Kate (Nannie) Smith Hutchison and Jesse Hutchison. She is survived by her daughter, Nicola Ann Sekanick Stout, her granddaughters, Susan Lynn Stout and Sharon Kay Stout, and her great-grandchildren, Katharine Susan Bales and Joseph (Joey) Bales.
Born on December 7, 1926, Alice grew up in the Lakewood area of Dallas, TX. Her family also spent time at the family farm in Grapevine, TX. After her parents’ death, she lived in Vickery, TX with her grandparents. She went to Robert E. Lee Elementary (now Geneva Heights Elementary) and J. L. Long Middle School. She turned 15 on the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked. She first heard about the attack from the boys selling newspapers on the street as she was leaving the movie theater in Grapevine, TX, where she had gone to celebrate with friends. She graduated from Vickery-Hillcrest High School in 1943. After high school she attended college at Southern Methodist University on a leadership scholarship, where she worked in the library. A talented artist, she drew advertisements for Titches (later known as Joske’s and then Dillard’s).
She met her husband, Bill Sekanick, at the USO, and they were wed on May 5, 1945, three days before World War II ended in Europe. They resided in Lakewood, where they lived and raised their daughter until 1957, when they moved to Richardson, TX. During this time, she spent many years as a volunteer nurse at Parkland Hospital.
She returned to college in the 1970s and earned a B.S. in Economics with a minor in history and then an M.S. in Economics, both from the University of Texas at Arlington. She spent 15 years working for Texas Instruments, was an instructor at UTA and UTD, and finally worked for the General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) as an auditor for the federal government.
After she retired from GAO, she became a substitute teacher and mentor in Richardson ISD, wrote and self-published two volumes of the genealogy of the Weaver and Hutchison families, joined the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), served as regent and secretary of the James Billingsley Chapter of the DAR, and gave speeches on American history. She also volunteered to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) through the Richardson Public Library, even helping one of her students earn her American citizenship.
Until recently, she took art classes at Richland College. We still have many of her original paintings in our homes. She was officially the oldest person to go whitewater rafting in Moab, UT, and she went ziplining with her great-granddaughter at 88.
She had a lifelong passion for travel. In addition to traveling for GAO and spending time in Washington, DC and New Orleans, LA, she traveled every year for pleasure, whether it was a bicentennial trip to celebrate 200 years of America, to Iceland to see the glaciers, or a road trip through the national parks on the West Coast. She loved traveling to Europe. She took a solo trip in the early 1970s and visited Berlin by herself when it was still behind the Iron Curtain.
Bold, capable, energetic, intelligent, adventurous, generous, and loving, we will miss her dearly. She was the pillar of all six generations of Dallasites, and the only one who knew all six generations of our family.
In lieu of flowers, we ask for donations in her honor to Faith Presbyterian Hospice. You can donate at https://www.faithpreshospice.org/donate/ or mail a donation to Faith Presbyterian Hospice, 12477 Merit Drive, Dallas, TX 75251. We are very grateful for the care that hospice provided in her final days.
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