Alice Harrison
— Alice Harriet (LaBounty) Harrison, age 96, of Pawcatuck, went to the Lord on May 13, 2022, with her loving family by her side at the Westerly Hospital. She was born Dec. 2, 1925, in Saint Albans, Vt., the daughter of the late John LaBounty and Evelyn LaBounty.
She was educated in the Saint Albans schools. After graduating from high school, she followed her sisters, Arlene and Jeanette, to Washington, D.C. and became a “Government Girl” working for the U.S. Civil Service Administration during World War II. While working in D.C., she met Lieutenant Robert F. Harrison, USN, who had fought in the Pacific during the war as a naval aviator and was starting on a twenty-year Navy career. They married and together they moved from one Navy base to another during his Navy career. They had seven children.
Besides taking care of seven children, Alice loved to garden and was always planting flowers and growing vegetables in a small family garden. Alice was a devout Roman Catholic and practiced her faith with all her heart and soul. She was a member of Saint Michael’s Church in Pawcatuck, and a devout “Prayer Warrior.” She instilled her faith in Jesus Christ and his Holy Mother Mary in all her children. Besides being a mother, she worked as a nurse’s aide at the Westerly Nursing Home and loved her work.
Alice is predeceased by her husband Robert; and survived by six of her seven children: Robert Harrison Jr. and Claire, Mary Kelliher, John Harrison and Dina, Paul Harrison and Karen, Jeanne Brummund and Dale and Thomas Harrison. Her son Richard Harrison is deceased, but is survived by his wife Susan and son Jeremy. Alice is predeceased by her parents, John and Evelyn; and her sisters,
Arlene, Jeanette, Marion and Doris; and her brother Harold. Alice is survived by her loving grandchildren: Robert III, Ryan, Eric, Kate, Amy, Laurie, Jessica, Sarah, Kyle, Michelle and Crystal; and of course, her great-grandchildren: Sam, Ryan, Allison, Emily, Connor, Nathan, Tyler and Evelyn, Emma, Riley, Corey and Cameron.
On behalf of the whole Harrison family, we would like to extend our most heartfelt thank you to all the staff on the 3rd floor of the Westerly Hospital and especially to the Hospice Staff for their extraordinary love, compassion, and care of our mother Alice.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, May 27, at St. Michael Church, 60 Liberty Street, Pawcatuck. There is no procession from the funeral home. Burial will take place at St. Michael New Cemetery, Pawcatuck. Funeral services are under the direction of Rushlow-Iacoi Funeral Home & Crematory, 64 Friendship Street, Westerly.