Fensterwald, Alice Ann

1925 - 2010  (85 years)

• Name	Fensterwald, Alice Ann  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Born	13 Jul 1925	Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1930	Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA   [4]
  	Age: 4; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
  Residence	1935	Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA   [3]
  Residence	1 Apr 1940	Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA   [3]
  	Age: 14; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
  Died	23 Nov 2010	Bethel, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2, 11, 14]
  Person ID	I20442	Our Family | Descendents of Hirsch Westheimer (I6684)
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Fensterwald, Ralph,   b. 5 Feb 1879, Baltimore, Independent Cities, Maryland, USA ,   d. 25 Sep 1945, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA  (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Westheimer, Myra,   b. 13 Jul 1890, Virginia, USA ,   d. 23 Oct 1969, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1921  [7, 15, 16]
  Family ID	F7801	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Strouse, William Moss,   b. 10 Mar 1921, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 1 Jan 1990, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA  (Age 68 years)
  Married	21 Dec 1947	Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA   [5, 7, 17, 18]
  Children	1. Strouse, William Peter   2. Strouse, Mary Ellen
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024
  Family ID	F4012	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Alice F. Strouse, a resident of Redding for sixty years, died November 23, 2010 at Bethel Health Care surrounded by loving family and friends. She touched the lives of many and will always be in our hearts. Born in 1925 in Norfolk, Va., she graduated from Duke University with a degree in physics. After college, Alice worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in Langley, VA doing statistical analysis of World War II bombing photographs. In 1947, Alice met and married William M. Strouse, another physicist. They lived in Bethlehem, Pa. and Corning, N.Y. before moving to Connecticut in 1950. For almost 30 years, Alice taught mathematics at Danbury High School in a classroom brightened by red geraniums and a giant geometric mural. She loved teaching, and always said that her students "kept her young." She led many students to achieve excellence, and her academic mentoring created life long friendships. She was particularly influential as the math team coach, and as DHS's first AP Calculus teacher, a role she proudly filled until retiring at age 71. Outside the classroom, she also taught and modeled excellence as a gardener, creating gardens and inspiring others to create gardens of their own. The keys to her success were her devotion to mulch and her willingness, as an organic gardener, to deal capably with all the 'varmints.' Alice was regularly on patrol for bugs, slugs, and critters which she dispatched or deported with grace and vigor. Alice was a perpetual student of culture and history, and traveled extensively with Elder Hostel. Her travels included trips to Turkey, Morocco, Iceland, Thailand, Tonga, Sicily and the Galapagos Islands. Alice's motto was 'keep moving' and she did just that, outwalking fellow travelers twenty years her junior. Alice swam in the summer, cross country skied in the winter, and studied watercolors at the Redding senior center, creating many paintings and occasionally displaying her art at local shows. Alice is survived by a daughter, Mary (Miriam) Strouse, of New Paltz, N.Y. and a son, Peter Strouse of Danbury. She was predeceased by her husband in 1990.

  
  

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