Alice Ann De Berry

1943 - 2025

Alice Ann Reiche de Berry

1943 ~ 2025

Provo, UT-Alice Ann Reiche de Berry, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and aunt, passed away peacefully with her husband by her side on October 9, 2025 after a decades long battle with Alzheimer's.

Born the third of four siblings to Fred and Vera (née Chandler) Reiche on Valentine's Day 1943 in Coronado, CA, Ann loved her family wholeheartedly. In her Berkeley, CA childhood home, her parents taught principles of faith, hope, charity, hard work, and forgiveness, while Ann and her siblings, John, Jeannie, and Marnie created many happy memories and lifelong friendships.

Ann became an accomplished pianist and organist often serving as ward organist. She attributed her flawless lightning typing speeds to her years of piano. As a young woman she even typed an entire book for publication, History of Brigham Young 1847-1867. Always an excellent student, Ann attended both UC Berkeley and BYU, where she received a BS in Sociology.

Ann's life started a new chapter when she met Lawrence (Lawry) de Berry while attending a church young adult outing at Yosemite in 1965. They were married and sealed for time and eternity in the Oakland, CA temple on July 28, 1966. Over the next 17 years, Ann and Lawry welcomed seven children into their home whom they dearly love. Ann dedicated her life to raising her children and caring for her husband. She loved her Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and that love and faith in the Gospel informed and shaped her actions at home with her family and in her community.

In addition to being a busy mother who sought to teach, protect, and advocate for her children's well being. Ann served in many capacities in her local congregation and community and willingly accepted any role she was asked to fill. When a job transfer in 1974 took her young family for a year and a half to the West Indies island of Jamaica, Ann had her first assignment as a Relief Society president for her small island-wide branch. She loved her new friends and the opportunities to learn from them and grow while immersed in a new culture.

A few years later, and as the mother of three sons, Ann stepped into role after role in the boy scout organization, eventually becoming the head organizer of consecutive multi-stake cub scout day camps. She brought all of her ingenuity to this assignment to inspire and educate the young cub scouts. She is the recipient of several awards for her exceptional contribution to scouting during her service and was much loved by the scouts and parents whose lives she enriched.

Her example and willingness to do with excellence whatever was needed, no matter the job, continues to inspire her own children today. After her children were grown, Ann served again as a Relief Society president in Walnut Creek, CA where she did everything she could do to lift and love the women whom she served. Again and again she set examples of Christlike charity for her children and those around her.

Though her life was not without hardship, she learned in time together with Lawry to face with grit life's challenges one day at a time. Over their 59 years of marriage, Ann and Lawry's commitment to each other, which was strengthened by their commitment to their faith and to their God, matured into an aspirational love story filled with affectionate memories of dancing in their living room or kitchen, snuggling on the sofa while watching a movie, and taking trips to be with children and grandchildren and to travel around the world–often to visit temples. Their full-hearted devotion to each other became evident to everyone who knew them as Ann faced a long-term advancing illness which had begun while she was still in her 60s. Ann remained in Lawry's care until the end, and she seemed to never lose her recognition of him as a trusted companion and comfort to her. The tenderness they expressed to each other had a calming influence on Ann in moments of anxiety, helping her maintain her sweet and gentle disposition through the worst of her illness.

Although at this time we grieve the separation, we are assured that we will see Ann again. We are grateful she is in a place where her mind can finally be whole to her again, and we rejoice in her reunion with her parents, her grandparents, and her loving Savior. We will miss her dearly.

Ann is survived by her husband, Lawrence de Berry (Provo, UT); her seven children, Renee (Paul) Johnson (San Diego, CA), Coreen (Tim) Mitchell (Mesquite, NV), Joel (Bonnie) de Berry (Petaluma, CA), Aaron de Berry (Lake Worth, FL), Lisette (Jeremy) Osterloh (Burbank, CA), Elsha (Jason) Heppler (Grand Haven, MI), Seth (Jennifer) de Berry (Walnut Creek, CA); 15 grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. She is also survived by her three siblings, John Reiche, Jean (Carmen) Davis, Marnie (Graham) Shaw and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 1555 N. 1350 W., Provo, UT 84604. Arrive between 12:30-1:15 p.m. to greet family and friends.