Alice Hall

Alice was born October 23, 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the third of four daughters of Roger Wolcott Newberry and Marion Camp Newberry. At the age of three, her father was offered a management opportunity at Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd in Lincoln, England, where the family lived for ten years, returning to Milwaukee on the eve of the Second World War. There, Alice attended Milwaukee-Downer Seminary, going on to Wellesley College in 1945. As a newcomer to the Boston area, she was introduced by a family friend to Francis and Priscilla Hall of Chestnut Hill, and their five children, including their four college-aged sons. It was George, one of the twins, who won her heart, and they married after her graduation from Wellesley in 1949.

Together they built a house overlooking Nahant harbor, surrounded by George’s family, and raised four children there. George was an avid sailor and Alice soon became one too, cruising the coast of Maine for a week or two every summer, first with relatives, and then on a series of sloops they kept moored in view of their home and in Georgetown, Maine. In winter, they skied in the White Mountains, with occasional trips to Europe or the Rockies, where Alice delighted in seeing her grandchildren learn to ski and ride the chairlift with her before she hung up her own skis. In later years, Alice and George traveled extensively, sometimes with their children and grandchildren, and entertained their many friends and relatives at their oceanfront home.

Alice was active in a number of civic and charitable organizations, including the North Shore Association for Retarded Children, the Greater Lynn Mental Health Association, the Lynn Home for Women, and the North Shore Wellesley Club. She served on the Nahant School Committee in 1980-81.

Alice is survived by three of her four children: George A. Hall, Jr. and his wife Meg Vitale of Ipswich, Mass., William P. Hall and his wife Setsuko Hall of Tokyo, Japan, and Marion Hall Russell and her husband Jim Russell of Ben Lomond, California, as well as five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband George Hall, her daughter Susannah Perry Hall, and her three sisters, Mary Newberry Matthews, Nancy Newberry Kamlukin, and Doris Newberry Michaelson.

In lieu of flowers, the family would welcome donations in memory of Alice to Rettsyndrome.org, 4600 Devitt Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45246.