This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: marysday Surnames: Davidson, Smith, Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.lincoln/5162/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The News Times Newport, OR 97365 Wednesday, Dec 16th, 2009 Alice Ware Davidson Alice Ware Davidson, 64, of Seal Rock, Ore. died Dec. 3, 2009 at her home. She was born to Harold and Ruby in Farmington, Ohio, where she lived until age 11. She moved to a farm outside Newton Falls just prior to her father's death. She and her mother stayed there until Alice's graduation from Newton Falls High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing at Saint Luke's School of Nursing in Cleveland in 1968. She worked as a public health nurse in inner-city Cleveland while pursuing her master's degree at Case Western Reserve. She married James Arthur Davidson in August of 1968. They had two children, daughter Ann Claire, born in 1972 and son William John, born in 1973. They were married for 22 years, until his death in an automobile accident in 1990. While raising their children, they lived in Canada, England, Colorado, Vermont and Ohio. She worked as a nurse during these years specializing in public health, maternity, medical-surgical, neurological, oncology and hospice nursing. In 1988, she received her PhD in Nursing from the School of Nursing, University of Colorado, Denver. She assumed a dual role as assistant professor of nursing at the university and head of research at Boulder Community Hospital. In 1994, she was awarded a research fellowship at Harvard University, where she worked on a National Institutes of Health funded investigation of the role of environmental complexity in the physical and mental wellbeing of the elderly. In 2001, she received a research fellowship to travel to Pari, Italy to study with complexity science researchers at the Pari Institute. In 1997, she began traveling via RV with long time companion, John Smith. They traveled extensively throughout the United States, before purchasing a home in Seal Rock in 2006. She and John enjoyed the beautiful Oregon coastal summers and drove the RV south to visit family in the winter. She loved gardening, traveling and was a good food and micro-brew enthusiast and dedicated environmentalist. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Arthur Davidson. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Jan. 30, 2010 at her son John's restaurant, The Crushery, 1579 S. Pearl Street, Denver. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, 2820 SE Ferry Slip Rd., Newport OR, 97365 or to a charity of one's choice. Affordable Burial and Cremation in Newport is handling arrangements. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.