Alice Reiber was born Alice Marie Knowles to Stephen and Phoebe Wilhelmina (Lange) Knowles on March 22, 1923, in Portland, Ore. She attended Gem State Academy in Caldwell, Idaho, and Walla Walla College in College Place, Wash., where she met Leland Reiber. Alice and Leland were married in 1944 in Olympia, while Leland was in the U.S. Army. Alice finished her bachelor's degree in home economics at the University of Idaho in 1977.
Alice and Leland had a very loving and happy marriage. She was an elementary school teacher, homemaker and mother who raised and is survived by three children, Charles, LeeAnn and Renita. Alice helped put her husband Leland through dental school, and assisted Leland during the opening years of his dental practice in Troy in 1959. She leaves one grandchild, Ian Clarke, who also graduated from UI.
Alice enjoyed outdoor activities including hiking, rafting, bicycling, rock hounding and camping. An accomplished violinist, she performed with the UI orchestra, and later with the North Idaho Old Time Fiddlers. She was active with the Dorcas Society and other service organizations, participated in the Troy Garden Club, Ladies Aid and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Her volunteer activities included quilting for service organizations in Troy, Deary and other surrounding communities. Many of the hundreds of patchwork quilts she and her friends created were donated to shelters, other organizations and individuals in need. Alice participated in Maranatha and many volunteer activities with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its missionary and educational efforts.
Alice Reiber passed away peacefully Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014, at Aspen Park Health Care in Moscow, in the company of her daughter, LeeAnn Aerlyn-Moore, and close family friend, June Drury Miner.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Troy Seventh-day Adventist Church. Memorial donations are suggested to the church's building fund.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Short's Funeral Chapel and online condolences may be left at www.shortsfuneralchapel.com.
