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Alice Louella Kelch Powers

Alice Powers Obituary

Alice Louella Kelch Powers, 84, of Roanoke, went to be with the Lord on Friday December 12, 2008. She was the daughter of George and Amanda Jane Kelch and is also preceded in death by her husband, John E. Powers; brothers, George F. Kelch, James Douglas Kelch; sister, Nellie Grace Brock; brother-in-law, Thomas L. Powers. Alice was a member of the Glade Creek Lutheran Church and a member of the Eastern Star. She was retired from First Union Bank. Surviving are her sister-in-law, Mary Kelch, of Roanoke; nephews and nieces, James Howard Kelch, Dallas Wright, Kenneth Wright, Agnes Chambers and Margaret Smith. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Glade Creek Lutheran Church, 3359 Webster Rd. Blue Ridge, Va. 24064. Funeral services will be at noon Tuesday December 16, 2008, at Oakey's North Chapel. Interment will be in Sherwood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday December 15, 2008, at Oakey's North Chapel, 362-1237.

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Published by Roanoke Times from Dec. 13 to Dec. 15, 2008.

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Jeff Sanders

December 15, 2008

My sincere sympathy goes out to Alice's family. I had the privilege to know Alice since about 1968. We were fellow members of the Roanoke Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. If you knew Alice, you know she loved trains! I was fortunate to have worked with her on the many railroad excursions and other projects through the years.

Alice knew how to have fun! She was one of the most outgoing, and giving, people I have ever known. I also know she was a woman of deep faith. She loved her God, her husband John, and all her family. She never meet a stranger. It has been some time now since we have been able to see her smiling face and share good times with her. But I look forward, with the hope that is within us, to see her again some day. I thank God for having known her, and my prayers go out to all her family for their great loss.

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