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Memorial for Eleanor's MotherTRANSCRIPT
A Pictorial History of
Alice Elston (Homewood)
1924 – 2007
Alice’s first year of life in Prince George BC 1924
Alice with her Mother 1925
Alice with her dog Rover 1925
Alice in 1926 with her mother, grandmother and great grandmother
Alice and Bill
1926
Alice and her brother Bill (2nd from right) with Prince George kids, mid 1930s
The Homewoods, 1930s
Homewoods, Nicholsons, & Munros, 1930s
West Lake Cabin (1937)
the site of many happy days for Alice and Bill
Alice age 13, 1937
Alice (far right at back) with brother Bill and two friends
Alice and Hazel Munro, 1940
Alice and Hazel again
Now they are upside down!
Alice in 1942, she loved dogs
Alice in the middle of two friends and Buster 1940s
Alice in the garden, 1940s
Alice at Alberta College 1943
Alberta College days, 1943
Alice the X-Country Skier, 1940s
Alice on right, with a friend
Alice in the middle late 40s/early 50s
Alice with young boy and, of course, a dog too
Alice, a bridesmaid at her brother Bill’s wedding
Alice’s brother Bill with daughter Ann in 1951 (whom Alice cared for 9 mths in 1950 while Ann’s Mom remained in hospital)
Alice in the early 1950s (in her father’s prized garden)
Alice in England, 1952
Alice with friend, Dorrie in London 1952
Alice teaching in Whitehorse, 1955
Alice a bride in 1956
Alice with Marjorie, 1956
Alice with daughters Marjorie and Katherine, 1958
Alice with her girls, 1959
Mick with Katherine, Eleanor and Marjorie 1960
Alice’s parents Alma and Percy Homewood, 1962
Alice and Mick’s 4 daughters, 1965
Alice in North Van, 1965
Alice in Victoria 1969
Alice and her girls in 1970
Alice and Mick’s girls, 1973
Barbara Lang and Alice, 1970s
Alice collecting Eleanor from a
hike 1974
Alice, 1978
Alice whale watching in 1979
Alice and her dog Mister, 1980
Alice and Mick
1980s
Alice 1980s
The Elstons in 1986
She loved those hats!
Alice with grandson, Neville, 1992
Alice with son in law, Chris Meyer, 1995
Alice in the 2000s
A hat of a different kind!
Three generations of Homewood women
August 2007, she lost her hat but found
another dog!
Glad I told you all I meant to
While I had the chance
‘Cause every moment I had with you
Made me who I am
-Dierks Bentley, 2005