Alice Lorene Merrill
Astoria August 24, 1932 — February 14, 2017
Alice Lorene Merrill, Astoria resident off and on for a number of years since June 1965, lastly since August 1976, left the physical world to be with Jesus on Feb. 14, 2017, in Seaside, Oregon.
Alice was born Aug. 24, 1932, at home in Port Angeles, Washington. She was the daughter of Thomas Clayton ad Mamie Ethel (Myerly) Scoles. She was the youngest of 10 children. She attended and graduated from Port Angeles schools.
She was a bookkeeper for several businesses, including Port Angeles Distributing, Enos Distributing, Midway Oxygen Co. (all in Port Angeles) and Stewart’s Furniture in Astoria. She was also a bartender for Astoria Moose Lodge for 15 years, an elections clerk for Clatsop County for many years, a secretary for Emerald Heights office and was a transporter for several Astoria and Warrenton car dealers. Alice also drove several friends to medical appointments and cancer treatments.
Alice was a College of Regents member of the Astoria Women of the Moose, the last Anchor Skipper and member from 1996-2011, Warrenton chapter of TOPS and KOPS member and member of Lewis and Clark Bible Church.
In July 1951, she married Rex Orrin Eastman and they divorced in 1961. On Nov. 27, 1963, she married Kenneth Earl Merrill, who survives.
She is survived by two sons and a daughter- in-law: Michael and Carol Eastman, Florissant, Missouri, and Jeffrey Eastman and friend Debbie, Port Angeles, Washington; and five daughters and sons-in-law: Susan and Steven Rooke, Eugene, Oregon; Debra Eastman, Anacortes, Washington; Kathleen and Russell Felmey, Damascus, Oregon; Karen Merrill of Astoria; and Kristen and Mark Nemecek, Portland, Oregon. Also surviving are eight grandchildren and their spouses: Joseph Eastman, Mindy and Charlie Smith, Paul Duncan, Erin Duncan-Delatorre, Sara and Dan Lisberger, Michael Felmey, Elizabeth Doran and Christopher and Brianna Felmey. Great-grandchildren: Mollie and Charlie Smith, Arielle Delatorre and Selena Felmey. Numerous nieces and nephews also survive. Four brothers, five sisters and one grandchild (Jennifer Felmey) preceded her in death.
Visitation will be held Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 10 a.m. to noon and memorial services will follow at noon at Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary.
A celebration of life will be held at a later date at Lewis and Clark Bible Church. Memorial contributions may be made to Lewis and Clark Bible Church or Astoria Lewis and Clark Chapter CEF.
Burial will be at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland.
