Alice Joyce Haskett

Alice was born on December 12, 1929, to Cedric and Margaret Huntsinger in Elwood, Indiana. The second of seven children, Alice grew up at 1400 North 9th Street in Elwood. During the hard times of the Great Depression and World War II, Alice was raised in a loving home, well-provided and cared for by her mother and her father, who had served in the Navy during World War I. Having graduated from Wendell L Willkie High School in 1948, Alice moved to Indianapolis where she worked in offices and attended classes in French, psychology, and English literature at Indiana University.

Relocating to California in 1960, Alice became a secretary for Guy F. Atkinson Construction Company in Palo Alto, California. Alice married Graydon W. Haskett from Tipton, Indiana, in 1962, and they enjoyed 60 years together before Graydon passed away on December 21, 2022. In 1971, Alice and Graydon welcomed a son, Henry Christopher Haskett. A year later, Alice and Graydon moved from their apartment in Sunnyvale and bought a home in San Jose. Alice raised her son and found time to sand and paint the inside and outside of 1524 Keesling Avenue.

In 1978, Alice began her 42-year career working in the Research Compliance Office at Stanford University. As the Human Subjects Coordinator in the Stanford School of Medicine, Alice was honored in 1995 with the O’Neill Award, Stanford’s only formal faculty recognition of staff. According to the December 13, 1995, Stanford Report, “Haskett was singled out for years of helping guide faculty researchers through mazes of regulations and daunting piles of paperwork.” A nominating faculty member wrote that “it is inconceivable to me that anyone, staff member or otherwise, is more dedicated and/or could have contributed more than Mrs. Haskett in supporting the research effort involving human subjects at Stanford.”

In 2020, Alice retired to care for her husband, Graydon, and to spend more time with her young grandchildren, Grace and James. With her grandchildren, Alice loved playing hide and seek, picking oranges and tangerines, walking around the neighborhood, reading stories, and baking snickerdoodle cookies and pound cake. As her grandchildren grew, Alice loved having them read stories to her, playing checkers, watching them dance, and listening to them play piano. Alice loved being a grandmother.

Predeceased by her parents, Cedric and Margaret; her older sister, Joan; her younger brother, Bob; and her husband, Graydon, Alice is survived by her son, Henry; her daughter-in-law, Margaret; her grandchildren, James and Grace; her brothers, Rex and Max; her sisters, Pat Bryan and Peggy Fouts; and many nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at Lima Family Erickson Memorial Chapel, located at 710 Willow Street, San Jose, California 95125, on Thursday, January 4, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. She will be buried in Elwood, Indiana.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to an organization that Alice strongly supported and believed in—the Lucille Packard Foundation for Children's Health at Stanford Children's Hospital.