Nov. 28, 1929 — Feb. 2, 2025
Alice was born Alice Kennedy Ebblewhite to Marjorie and Harry Ebblewhite in E. St. Louis, Illinois, where her father, an electrical engineer from the state of Washington, was working on a project.
She grew up on the Riverside Ranchos area of Burbank, California, where she owned a three-gaited Saddlebred horse named Mignon. She showed Mignon in dressage classes and enjoyed giving neighbors tours in her surrey pulled by Mignon.
Graduating from Burbank High School in 1947, she attended Scripps College in Claremont, California, earning a B.A. degree in English literature in 1951. While there she met her future husband, Clifford Donald Butler after leaving the army from WWII. They married at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church in June 1952. They moved to Shakespeare Drive in San Marino in 1964 with their two boys, Kenneth and Stephen, who went all through San Marino schools. Son Kenneth died of heart trouble just 20 months after his father in 2015. Son Stephen and his wife Maria now live in Temple City, California.
Alice continued her education at Occidental College receiving a teaching credential, an administrative credential, then an M.A. in Education and a state issued Certificate of proficiency in Spanish/English. She was the most proud of passing "that nasty test" at USC which conducted the exam for the Spanish/English certificate.
In 1959, she began a 30-year career in the Pasadena Unified School District as a teacher, principal and central office program director K-12. She retired early at age 59.
After retirement she busied herself with memberships in nonprofits. She served 17 years on the administrative board of the Pasadena Museum of History, and spent 10 years as a Library Hall docent at the Huntington Library. She was a 30-year member of the Caltech Associates and San Marino Chapter JV of PEO until disbanded a few years ago. Her last social gatherings were held at her home, they were in the form of a book club with 10 local widows as members whom she had known most of her life.
Alice leaves her son Stephen and his wife Maria, two married granddaughters Melissa Crenshaw and Michelle O'Malley, and five great-grandchildren: James, 18, Izabella, 15, Andrew, 12, Caitlyn, 11 and Evan, 10. A memorial service will be held in private. She is laid to rest in the Santa Barbara Cemetery beside her husband Don. She was 95 years old.
Published in the San Mateo Tribune, San Mateo, California, February 6, 2025
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