Alice Cuba, 90, of Longmont, died May 1, 2018 at her home. Cremation has been entrusted to Howe Mortuary and Cremation Services.
Alice Elaine Alexander was born on September 3, 1927 at her family’s farm home outside of Lebanon, Nebraska, surrounded by golden wheat and sunflower fields. She was the youngest of seven children born to Andrew Frederick Alexander and Lula Mae Smith. Her parents were loving, and the household was lively with tradition and bustle. On the farm, there were cattle, pigs and chickens, and also corn, alfalfa and wheat. Alice spent her childhood wandering the bucolic, rustic plains with neighbors and siblings, climbing trees, playing make believe and orchestrating pranks as children should. But with no plumbing or electricity, there was also much work to be done on the farm. Alice sold chicken eggs in town, canned fruits and vegetables from the garden, and boiled water for bath time. She cared for the farm animals, won awards for growing vegetables, and even raised a baby cow on her own, to sell at auction. It was a childhood filled with all the physical difficulties and natural joys of rural American life.
Alice grew up to be an outgoing, fun-loving and quite beautiful young woman. She graduated from Lebanon High School with a class of ten students in 1945. Her graduation photo hangs in the school hallway to this day. Leaving home for the first time (but not nearly the last), she attended Central Business College in Denver. She worked as a private secretary for Milaw Company and met her soul mate at a dance in 1946. Jerome “Jerry” Cuba (1925 – 1996) caught the eyes of all the girls that night, but anyone who knew Alice knows she always had that special spark. Jerry and Alice quickly became inseparable and they were married on June 29, 1947 at St. Joseph’s church in Globeville, Colorado less than a year after that fateful night at the dance.
Nebraska gets its name from the Native American Oto word used to describe the Platte River, which connects the state of Nebraska to Colorado. It is sometimes said that the river waters Jerome swam in as a boy are the very same waters which nourished and irrigated Alice’s childhood farm. It’s hard to say if the love they recognized in each other in 1945 was tied to the wonder of the landscape that had always lay between them, but indeed their romance proved to be just as steady and sure as the river itself.
Having moved to Loveland, Colorado while her husband completed a degree in engineering, Alice worked as a waitress. She gave birth to their first child, Cheryl Ann, in 1949, and eventually they bought their first house in Longmont. It was her husband’s job with Douglas Aircraft Company that would launch the growing Cuba family across the world. They moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1952, and from then on, they wouldn’t stay in one place for very long! From New Mexico to Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands to California, Alice and her family enjoyed a life enriched by a regular change of scenery every few years. Between 1952 and 1956, Alice gave birth to three more children, Kathleen Susan, Rebecca Lynn and Michael Edward. Alice’s life as the keeper of her household was in full bloom, made even sweeter by the birth of their fifth and last child Jerome Alexander in 1966. Alice managed the family household and raised their five children while also engaging deeply with various charitable organizations over the years. She traveled with her husband extensively, from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia to China and many countries in between. Eventually Alice and Jerry retired to Longmont in 1985 where they lived in a beautiful house on Gaynor Lake until shortly after her husband’s death on July 3rd, 1996. Alice is survived by her five children, 11 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
Alice had many talents. Her mother was a prolific story-teller, a gift she passed on to our Alice, whose bedtime stories her many grandchildren will remember forever! Her father was a talented farmer and those experiences of childhood on the farm paved the way for Alice to become a wonderful cook, and a maker of excellent pies. Alice had a real thing for dancing, an activity she enjoyed well into her 70s. Most of all, Alice was a loving mother and citizen. She was involved in multiple, long-term charity causes throughout her life, where she provided insight to organizations, and compassion to individuals who were lucky enough to be in her care. Her passion for family and community is a quality that has reverberated through the generations, her most important legacy being the beloved individuals she leaves here on Earth, lovers of music and art, lovers of God, community workers, gardeners, compassionate leaders, strong mothers, kind fathers, people of faith. Alice’s family continues her legacy of love and devotion.
Alice Elaine Alexander was born on September 3, 1927 at her family’s farm home outside of Lebanon, Nebraska, surrounded by golden wheat and sunflower fields. She was the youngest of seven children born to Andrew Frederick Alexander and Lula Mae Smith. Her parents were loving, and the household was lively with tradition and bustle. On the farm, there were cattle, pigs and chickens, and also corn, alfalfa and wheat. Alice spent her childhood wandering the bucolic, rustic plains with neighbors and siblings, climbing trees, playing make believe and orchestrating pranks as children should. But with no plumbing or electricity, there was also much work to be done on the farm. Alice sold chicken eggs in town, canned fruits and vegetables from the garden, and boiled water for bath time. She cared for the farm animals, won awards for growing vegetables, and even raised a baby cow on her own, to sell at auction. It was a childhood filled with all the physical difficulties and natural joys of rural American life.
Alice grew up to be an outgoing, fun-loving and quite beautiful young woman. She graduated from Lebanon High School with a class of ten students in 1945. Her graduation photo hangs in the school hallway to this day. Leaving home for the first time (but not nearly the last), she attended Central Business College in Denver. She worked as a private secretary for Milaw Company and met her soul mate at a dance in 1946. Jerome “Jerry” Cuba (1925 – 1996) caught the eyes of all the girls that night, but anyone who knew Alice knows she always had that special spark. Jerry and Alice quickly became inseparable and they were married on June 29, 1947 at St. Joseph’s church in Globeville, Colorado less than a year after that fateful night at the dance.
Nebraska gets its name from the Native American Oto word used to describe the Platte River, which connects the state of Nebraska to Colorado. It is sometimes said that the river waters Jerome swam in as a boy are the very same waters which nourished and irrigated Alice’s childhood farm. It’s hard to say if the love they recognized in each other in 1945 was tied to the wonder of the landscape that had always lay between them, but indeed their romance proved to be just as steady and sure as the river itself.
Having moved to Loveland, Colorado while her husband completed a degree in engineering, Alice worked as a waitress. She gave birth to their first child, Cheryl Ann, in 1949, and eventually they bought their first house in Longmont. It was her husband’s job with Douglas Aircraft Company that would launch the growing Cuba family across the world. They moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1952, and from then on, they wouldn’t stay in one place for very long! From New Mexico to Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands to California, Alice and her family enjoyed a life enriched by a regular change of scenery every few years. Between 1952 and 1956, Alice gave birth to three more children, Kathleen Susan, Rebecca Lynn and Michael Edward. Alice’s life as the keeper of her household was in full bloom, made even sweeter by the birth of their fifth and last child Jerome Alexander in 1966. Alice managed the family household and raised their five children while also engaging deeply with various charitable organizations over the years. She traveled with her husband extensively, from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia to China and many countries in between. Eventually Alice and Jerry retired to Longmont in 1985 where they lived in a beautiful house on Gaynor Lake until shortly after her husband’s death on July 3rd, 1996. Alice is survived by her five children, 11 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
Alice had many talents. Her mother was a prolific story-teller, a gift she passed on to our Alice, whose bedtime stories her many grandchildren will remember forever! Her father was a talented farmer and those experiences of childhood on the farm paved the way for Alice to become a wonderful cook, and a maker of excellent pies. Alice had a real thing for dancing, an activity she enjoyed well into her 70s. Most of all, Alice was a loving mother and citizen. She was involved in multiple, long-term charity causes throughout her life, where she provided insight to organizations, and compassion to individuals who were lucky enough to be in her care. Her passion for family and community is a quality that has reverberated through the generations, her most important legacy being the beloved individuals she leaves here on Earth, lovers of music and art, lovers of God, community workers, gardeners, compassionate leaders, strong mothers, kind fathers, people of faith. Alice’s family continues her legacy of love and devotion.
Alice Cuba, 90, of Longmont, died May 1, 2018 at her home. Cremation has been entrusted to Howe Mortuary and Cremation Services.
Alice Elaine Alexander was born on September 3, 1927 at her family’s farm home outside of Lebanon, Nebraska, surrounded by golden wheat and sunflower fields. She was the youngest of seven children born to Andrew Frederick Alexander and Lula Mae Smith. Her parents were loving, and the household was lively with tradition and bustle. On the farm, there were cattle, pigs and chickens, and also corn, alfalfa and wheat. Alice spent her childhood wandering the bucolic, rustic plains with neighbors and siblings, climbing trees, playing make believe and orchestrating pranks as children should. But with no plumbing or electricity, there was also much work to be done on the farm. Alice sold chicken eggs in town, canned fruits and vegetables from the garden, and boiled water for bath time. She cared for the farm animals, won awards for growing vegetables, and even raised a baby cow on her own, to sell at auction. It was a childhood filled with all the physical difficulties and natural joys of rural American life.
Alice grew up to be an outgoing, fun-loving and quite beautiful young woman. She graduated from Lebanon High School with a class of ten students in 1945. Her graduation photo hangs in the school hallway to this day. Leaving home for the first time (but not nearly the last), she attended Central Business College in Denver. She worked as a private secretary for Milaw Company and met her soul mate at a dance in 1946. Jerome “Jerry” Cuba (1925 – 1996) caught the eyes of all the girls that night, but anyone who knew Alice knows she always had that special spark. Jerry and Alice quickly became inseparable and they were married on June 29, 1947 at St. Joseph’s church in Globeville, Colorado less than a year after that fateful night at the dance.
Nebraska gets its name from the Native American Oto word used to describe the Platte River, which connects the state of Nebraska to Colorado. It is sometimes said that the river waters Jerome swam in as a boy are the very same waters which nourished and irrigated Alice’s childhood farm. It’s hard to say if the love they recognized in each other in 1945 was tied to the wonder of the landscape that had always lay between them, but indeed their romance proved to be just as steady and sure as the river itself.
Having moved to Loveland, Colorado while her husband completed a degree in engineering, Alice worked as a waitress. She gave birth to their first child, Cheryl Ann, in 1949, and eventually they bought their first house in Longmont. It was her husband’s job with Douglas Aircraft Company that would launch the growing Cuba family across the world. They moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1952, and from then on, they wouldn’t stay in one place for very long! From New Mexico to Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands to California, Alice and her family enjoyed a life enriched by a regular change of scenery every few years. Between 1952 and 1956, Alice gave birth to three more children, Kathleen Susan, Rebecca Lynn and Michael Edward. Alice’s life as the keeper of her household was in full bloom, made even sweeter by the birth of their fifth and last child Jerome Alexander in 1966. Alice managed the family household and raised their five children while also engaging deeply with various charitable organizations over the years. She traveled with her husband extensively, from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia to China and many countries in between. Eventually Alice and Jerry retired to Longmont in 1985 where they lived in a beautiful house on Gaynor Lake until shortly after her husband’s death on July 3rd, 1996. Alice is survived by her five children, 11 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
Alice had many talents. Her mother was a prolific story-teller, a gift she passed on to our Alice, whose bedtime stories her many grandchildren will remember forever! Her father was a talented farmer and those experiences of childhood on the farm paved the way for Alice to become a wonderful cook, and a maker of excellent pies. Alice had a real thing for dancing, an activity she enjoyed well into her 70s. Most of all, Alice was a loving mother and citizen. She was involved in multiple, long-term charity causes throughout her life, where she provided insight to organizations, and compassion to individuals who were lucky enough to be in her care. Her passion for family and community is a quality that has reverberated through the generations, her most important legacy being the beloved individuals she leaves here on Earth, lovers of music and art, lovers of God, community workers, gardeners, compassionate leaders, strong mothers, kind fathers, people of faith. Alice’s family continues her legacy of love and devotion.
Alice Elaine Alexander was born on September 3, 1927 at her family’s farm home outside of Lebanon, Nebraska, surrounded by golden wheat and sunflower fields. She was the youngest of seven children born to Andrew Frederick Alexander and Lula Mae Smith. Her parents were loving, and the household was lively with tradition and bustle. On the farm, there were cattle, pigs and chickens, and also corn, alfalfa and wheat. Alice spent her childhood wandering the bucolic, rustic plains with neighbors and siblings, climbing trees, playing make believe and orchestrating pranks as children should. But with no plumbing or electricity, there was also much work to be done on the farm. Alice sold chicken eggs in town, canned fruits and vegetables from the garden, and boiled water for bath time. She cared for the farm animals, won awards for growing vegetables, and even raised a baby cow on her own, to sell at auction. It was a childhood filled with all the physical difficulties and natural joys of rural American life.
Alice grew up to be an outgoing, fun-loving and quite beautiful young woman. She graduated from Lebanon High School with a class of ten students in 1945. Her graduation photo hangs in the school hallway to this day. Leaving home for the first time (but not nearly the last), she attended Central Business College in Denver. She worked as a private secretary for Milaw Company and met her soul mate at a dance in 1946. Jerome “Jerry” Cuba (1925 – 1996) caught the eyes of all the girls that night, but anyone who knew Alice knows she always had that special spark. Jerry and Alice quickly became inseparable and they were married on June 29, 1947 at St. Joseph’s church in Globeville, Colorado less than a year after that fateful night at the dance.
Nebraska gets its name from the Native American Oto word used to describe the Platte River, which connects the state of Nebraska to Colorado. It is sometimes said that the river waters Jerome swam in as a boy are the very same waters which nourished and irrigated Alice’s childhood farm. It’s hard to say if the love they recognized in each other in 1945 was tied to the wonder of the landscape that had always lay between them, but indeed their romance proved to be just as steady and sure as the river itself.
Having moved to Loveland, Colorado while her husband completed a degree in engineering, Alice worked as a waitress. She gave birth to their first child, Cheryl Ann, in 1949, and eventually they bought their first house in Longmont. It was her husband’s job with Douglas Aircraft Company that would launch the growing Cuba family across the world. They moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1952, and from then on, they wouldn’t stay in one place for very long! From New Mexico to Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands to California, Alice and her family enjoyed a life enriched by a regular change of scenery every few years. Between 1952 and 1956, Alice gave birth to three more children, Kathleen Susan, Rebecca Lynn and Michael Edward. Alice’s life as the keeper of her household was in full bloom, made even sweeter by the birth of their fifth and last child Jerome Alexander in 1966. Alice managed the family household and raised their five children while also engaging deeply with various charitable organizations over the years. She traveled with her husband extensively, from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia to China and many countries in between. Eventually Alice and Jerry retired to Longmont in 1985 where they lived in a beautiful house on Gaynor Lake until shortly after her husband’s death on July 3rd, 1996. Alice is survived by her five children, 11 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
Alice had many talents. Her mother was a prolific story-teller, a gift she passed on to our Alice, whose bedtime stories her many grandchildren will remember forever! Her father was a talented farmer and those experiences of childhood on the farm paved the way for Alice to become a wonderful cook, and a maker of excellent pies. Alice had a real thing for dancing, an activity she enjoyed well into her 70s. Most of all, Alice was a loving mother and citizen. She was involved in multiple, long-term charity causes throughout her life, where she provided insight to organizations, and compassion to individuals who were lucky enough to be in her care. Her passion for family and community is a quality that has reverberated through the generations, her most important legacy being the beloved individuals she leaves here on Earth, lovers of music and art, lovers of God, community workers, gardeners, compassionate leaders, strong mothers, kind fathers, people of faith. Alice’s family continues her legacy of love and devotion.
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