Alice Floriene Monroe

Floriene Monroe was a loving wife, wonderful mother, and proud grandmother. She was also a small business owner, housewife, decorator and bookkeeper. Floriene was 88 years old when she went to be with the Lord Tuesday, February 26, 2008.

Floriene was well known for her creativity as a seamstress and decorator, doll collector, pianist, enthusiastic supporter of her church, and for her perpetual love of children, especially her three grandchildren.

She loved to travel, round dance and entertain. Floriene was born in Wichita, Kansas January 16, 1920.

Floriene met the love-of-her-life, G. R. Bob Monroe, in the 8th grade Home Room at Allison Middle School. They were married in 1942.

She lived in Kansas for 68 years, graduating from Wichita's North High School in 1937, attending Friends University, and starting The Crafty-Old-Owl-Shop needlework store with her sister-in-law Patsy Covey.

She and her husband were members of Wichita's West Side Baptist Church from 1948 to 1990, then Castle Hills First Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas. Floriene and Bob moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1988 to be near their grandchildren.

Alice Floriene Monroe is survived by her son David Allen Monroe and his wife Dalal Kanafani Monroe, three grandchildren; Adam Alexander Monroe, of Stanford, California, and Dawn Tracey Monroe and Katherine Anne Monroe, of San Antonio, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her husband, George Robert Monroe, her parents; Harvey Roy Allen, Mary Belle Allen and her brother Herbert Allen.

Her Family will hold visitation Tuesday, March 4th, from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at Porter Loring Mortuary on McCullough.