Alice Louise Ringer Oholendt died peacefully on Tuesday, April 20. She was 103 years old. Alice was born in Boulder, CO on November 8, 1917. She moved to North Little Rock as a young child and remained a resident most of her life. In her lifetime, she survived the Spanish Flu pandemic as an infant and the Covid19 pandemic as a centenarian.
The third child of Georgia Grove Ringer and Robert Ringer, Sr., Alice played harmonica on local radio and went on to win school awards in recitation and choral music. She graduated North Little Rock High with the mid-term class of January 1936. In 1940 she married Francis E. Oholendt; the couple were married 56 years before his death in 1996.
Alice loved the arts and served as director of the North Little Rock Women’s Club Art Exhibit and worked as a volunteer at the Arkansas Art Center. She volunteered at her church and local schools, taught Sunday school, and put in many years as a member of the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. Skilled in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, and needlepoint, she could also sew clothing, costumes. curtains, and slipcovers. Painting ceramics, playing piano, gardening, and refinishing furniture were among her other pastimes. She was a knowledgeable collector of antique glass and an avid reader.
Her husband’s work took them to Pine Bluff, AR from 1950 - 1953 and to Ft. Worth,TX from 1973 - 1987, but when he retired the couple returned to North Little Rock and built the house where she lived until her passing.
She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband as well as by her sisters, Mildred Ringer Shillcutt and Faye Ringer Jackson and brother, Robert Ringer, Jr. She is survived by her son, Grove Oholendt of Charlevoix, MI and daughter, Rebecca Oholendt Brinkley (Carl) of Seattle, WA. Alice also leaves behind five grandchildren; Kelley Oholendt Hutchens, Michael Oholendt, Benjamin Brinkley, Claire Brinkley Noonan, Weston Brinkley, and ten great-grand children as well as many loving nieces and nephews.
A graveside service will be held at Edgewood Cemetery Monday, April 26 at 1:00pm. Mrs. Oholendt’s niece, Billie Oholendt Dreher, will officiate.
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