Alice L. Gay
Alice L. Gay, 72, of Ericson died Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at Valley County Health Systems in Ord, Nebraska.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m., Saturday at Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul. Robert Gay, Jr. will officiate. A family interment will be held at a later date. Visitation will be held from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m., Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to the family’s choice.
Alice was born January 7, 1939 to Herbert & Irene (Bearden) Keller at Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
As a young child she and her family lived in several states in the central part of the country where they worked. Alice graduated from Manuelito High School in Denver.
Alice was united in marriage to Robert Gay on April 6, 1957 in Denver.
Alice worked at Sears in Denver for a short time before moving to Germany to be with her husband while he was in the Air Force. They were there for 3 ½ years before returning to Glasglow, MT where they lived for 2 years. The couple moved to Thule, Greenland for a year before her husband left the Air Force and they moved to Sterling, CO.
After leaving Sterling they moved to Aurora, CO. Alice lived with her parents in Loveland, CO while her husband returned to the service and was in Vietnam.
When Robert returned from Vietnam, the couple lived in Aurora, CO, Cassville, MO and Little Rock, A where Robert was employed doing contract labor.
In 1999, the couple moved to Ericson, NE where they have lived since.
Alice enjoyed reading, collecting recipes and cooking.
She was a member of the Church of Christ in Grand Island.
Survivors includes her husband, Robert of Ericson; a son, Robert Jr. and his wife Yong Yun of Burke, VA; two daughters and a son-in-law, Alisa Bentley of Overland Park, KS and Annaliese and Jay Turner of Hillsboro, NC; her parents, Herbert and Irene Keller of Loveland, CO; six grandchildren, Julya Gandy and her husband Brock, Gloria Gay, Benjamin Bentley, Paul Gay, Macie Bentley and Jayme Turner; and a sister, Helen Keller of Loveland, CO.
Alice was preceded in death by a brother, Kenneth Keller.
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Dear Uncle Bob, Robert, Annaliese, Alisa and family,
Though we can’t be there in person please know that we are with you all in spirit and our love and prayers are sent along with our deepest sympathy.
Aunt Alice’s passing leaves a void in the lives of all those that knew and loved her, and our sorrow for her departure is most certainly heaven’s joy for her arrival.
We pray the kowledge that she is now wrapped in the infinitely gentle and loving embrace of our Lord, in some small way, serves to ease your grief; and that time’s mercy replaces your sorrow with loving memories of the joy and happiness she brought her husband, children, grandchildren, friends and relatives.
In sympathy and with love,
Kenny Lane & Family
Bob, Robert, Annie & Lisa,
There is really nothing I can say except that I am so very sorry. I will always cherish all the memories of the time I spent at your house. I even still laugh sometimes about you singing “Sarah, Sarah, Sarah Lea”!
I always thought Alice was one of the prettiest moms I ever met. Please know that my love and prayers are with you all.
Love and miss you,
Sarah (Beeson) Marney
I was so shocked to see this yesterday, and Have no ideal what to say but, know she will be missed so much by all her family, Just saying Your Name Bob and Alice is part of it,, I am also sorry to say non of will be able to make it, I have to go to Mo after hay first of the week and then again the week after, My last memory is of her laughting at Uncle Pauls Playing Horse UNO, she had a wonderful time,, she was a ways so beautiful and a wonderful Lady,
Love to you all
Cousin
Roxie & Family
Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you during this sad time. I can only say time heals all wounds. If there is ever any thing you guys need please let us know. Family is so important and sometimes we forget and then we are reminded.I’m so thankful we got to see our cousins at the anniversary celebration. I’m so sorry for your loss.
Love you all
Denise Cahill and Family
I’m sure Alice left our world filled with pride knowing that her job here was done, having raised 3 wonderful children and the peace that she would be with her Lord and her beloved brother.
My love and prayers all with all of you.
Love you all
Darlene Northrup
It’s hard to part with a family member you have know all your life, you don’t realize what a void it leaves in your heart. I wil always remember the kindness she showed me. It gives me joy that she will be in heaven with my Dad.
My prayers are with all of you.
Kevin Keller
Nothing can ever fill the void and empty place you have left in our hearts and lives. We wanted to hold you just one more time and tell you how precious you are. We have been so blessed and praise the Lord God and Lord Jesus Christ for giving you to us–such a beutiful baby, 7 pounds of sheer joy who embraced life headlong-walked at 7 months, almost trained herself same time. Our only consolution in losing our graoious and precious daughter from her earhly body is she was a Christian and we will be a family again when God calls us to our Eternal Home.
Family, one of the sweetest names in the English language.
We love each of you and Thank you, Bob, for being our daughter’s good caretaker these many years. Do not ever forget you are our son. We dearly love and care for you.
Dad, mom, grandparents, bro-in-law, (Herb, Irene and Helen
Wish with all our being could be with you, our precious family, at this time. We are with you in our hearts and with prayers.
Grandchildren and Alice’s sister, sister-in-law, etc, Please travel safe and take care of your dad.
Grands
I was just thinking one day last week of Alice and all of you, wondering how and where you were. I had not been in contact for a few yrs.
I am so sorry about Alice’s passing from this life. This is only the beginning of life that will last forever, which is a hard concept for us, bur easier to think of as we get older.
I will always remember the time spent with Alice and RD with pleasent memories. Alice and I shared a lot of conversations. She was truly a Godly woman and loved to think on God and loved the Lord’s church and His work for her, which she gave herself to when they lived here in Sherwood. We laughed a lot and spoke of spiritual things. She was a sister in Christ to me. I remember the good rolls that she baked and brought once to a gathering here. She did more cooking than that, just can’t remember all of the foods that she made.
May God bless all of you dear Gay family. Know that our loving thoughts and prayers are with you. May God truly comfort you, with beautiful memories of love and good times and the spiritual closeness that you shared.
Please come to see us if you are this way. We will see Alice again one day and we will sit and visit there where there will be no separation for any of us. May God bless us all to be ready to meet Alice when we leave here and join the heavenly family who means so much to us, along with our wonderful Jesus Who is preparing a place for us and did the work many years ago for us to inherit such a place. Love you,
Imogean and Farrell Falwell and family
Bob, Robert, Annie, Alicia,
Our dear grandchildren and family,
More than we can bear. Such a lovely and precious daughter God blessed us with. Cannot write much but tried so hard to get some of you in time to ask someone to tape Robert’s loving voice/ mess-age/tribute to your gracious mother and our beautiful daughter. Could you possibly, or would it be asking too much, to remember and write your words, better still, tape them for us? Would like to have small memorial here for us, her cousins and close friends.
Would so much like your dad to know how much we do appreciate how well he always cared for her. She loved him from the first and so proud of him and her precious family. So did we and so are we.
Love always,
Grandpa, grandma, aunt Helen