Alice Adelia Piel Tobin

Alice Adelia Piel Tobin, 87, died May 8 at the Alaska Veterans and Pioneer Home in Palmer.

She was born Aug. 28, 1921, in Shreveport, La., and moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1925.

She moved to Palmer from her home in Memphis in 1997.

She was a homemaker. She is survived by two children, her daughter, Kathy and son-in-law Jonathan Rockey, her grandchildren Joshua and Erin and their son Jacob, Andrew and Justine and their son Jackson, Mary, and Tim of Palmer, and her son Patrick and daughter-in-law Cindy Tobin and grandchildren Lauren and Michael of Memphis. Other survivors include her two nephews, Martin and Colleen Gulseth and children Andy, Matt and Joy, of Spokane, Wash., and Alfred and Ginny Gulseth and their son Luther of Alma, Ark.

The funeral will be held on Friday at 3:30 p.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Palmer with internment at Calvary Cemetery in Memphis at a later date.

The family suggests memorials be given to the Wheelchair Van Fund at St. John Lutheran Church, PO Box 774, Palmer, Alaska 99645.

Alice was married to James Anthony Tobin in 1953. She was an active church member all of her life at Trinity, Messiah and Immanuel Lutheran churches in Memphis, and St. John Lutheran in Palmer. She taught many people to cook and sew as a Home Demonstration Member and 4-H Leader. Alice loved to garden and had a special love for flowers.

She was preceded in death by a son, James Henry, in 1954, and her husband Jim, in 1980.

Alice was a gentle southern lady who had a wonderful sense of humor and valued her faith and her family above all things.

Arrangements are with Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel in Wasilla.