Alice was born Alice Catherine Sipple on Sept. 17, 1922 in Elgin, Illinois, the youngest of 8 children of Martin Fred Sipple and Clara Adams Sipple. Martin, who emigrated from Germany as a child, was a mailman and a veteran of the Spanish American War. Clara Adam's family came from Rehoboth, Mass. According to legend, at the birth of his last child, Martin declared in his native language "Das ist Alles!", and so Alice entered the world.

As a girl, Alice began her life-long association with Girl Scouts. In the 1930s, she was awarded the prized Golden Eaglet. "The five requirements for winning the Golden Eaglet are character, health, handicraft, happiness and service, and that others will expect to find in our Golden Eaglet a perfect specimen of girlhood: mentally, morally, and physically." Alice continued her Scouting passion through later work mainly as a volunteer in New York and New Mexico.

As a student at Blackburn College, Alice met a young chemistry professor, just as World War II was beginning. She married Galen Wood Ewing in 1942 in Albany, NY. They lived in Rensselaer and Schenectady, where their sons Martin and William were born in 1945 and 1947. A third son, Thomas, was born in 1954.

In 1957, the family moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico. Alice pursued many interests there, including American Indian history, and raising championship cocker spaniels. In 1962, she completed her Bachelor's degree at New Mexico Highlands University.

In 1999, after Galen's death, Alice moved to Branford CT and later to East Haven. She died July 8, 2016, survived by her 3 sons, 6 grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren. Services will be private.

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