Alice Elizabeth Grogan

As a young girl Alice lived in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Indiana, Puerto Rico, Illinois, and Hawaii. She traversed the Panama Canal in both directions. She and her parents were living in Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941. Alice and her mother moved back to the mainland while her father went to serve in the Pacific for the duration of the war.

Alice spent four years at Boston University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree. After college she taught in the public school system.

She met her future husband, Earl W. Grogan (“Wayne”), in Illinois. They were married in 1950 in Lynn, Massachusetts. During their married life they lived in Maryland, Virginia, Germany, Texas, the Washington DC area, and Japan. After Wayne retired from the Army, they continued to live in Rockville, Maryland while he pursued a second career at the National Academy of Sciences. In 1998 Alice and Wayne moved to the Army Residence Community in San Antonio.

In retirement, she and Wayne devoted years to genealogy research, traveling the U.S. and reconstructing the family tree on both sides of the family, extending back many generations. Alice spent many happy hours at the Library of Congress in Washington DC researching the family's roots. In addition to genealogy research, she had a lifelong interest in gemology.

Alice died peacefully on October 31, 2017. She was preceded in death by her husband Wayne, to whom she was married for 63 years. Alice has two sons, Wayne Jr., a cardiologist who lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Connie, and Allen, an attorney who lives in Los Angeles with his wife Susie. She has five grandchildren, Alexander of New York City, Scott of Phoenix, Arizona, Laura of Madison, Wisconsin, Travis of Phoenix, Arizona, and Tess of Syracuse, New York.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in honor of Alice to the charity of one's choice.