SOUTH PORTLAND – Alice Louise O’Donnell, 82, of Aspen Avenue died Friday, Feb. 6, 2004, at a Portland hospital. She was born March 2, 1921, in Houlton, the daughter of James and Elva Victory McGillicuddy. She graduated in 1939 from Hodgdon High School and also received her associate’s degree from a business college in Houlton in 1941. Prior to World War II, she worked as a secretarial clerk at Houlton Air Base. On Aug. 25, 1948, she married Eugene G. O’Donnell at St. Mary’s Church in Houlton. Together they began raising a family and later moved to the Portland area in 1958. Alice returned to work in 1962 for O’Donnell’s Express. In 1968, the family moved to Lincoln and returned to the Portland area in 1970. In 1972, she accepted a position at St. John’s Credit Union in South Portland. She accepted a position for Blue Line Trucking Company, retiring in 1983. She was a communicant of St. John the Evangelist Church. Alice was a member of the Catholic Women’s Council, the South Portland VFW Auxiliary and the Maine Ostomy Association. Her husband, Eugene died Dec. 29, 1995, and was also predeceased by four brothers, John, Maurice, Donald and Gerald McGillicuddy. She is survived by two daughters, Joan Stinson and her husband, Roger, of Lincoln, Patricia Nadeau and her husband, Nelson, of Portland; three sisters, Margaret Welton of Houlton, Helen Craine and her husband, Ed, of Presque Isle, and Ruth Rau and her husband, Ed, of Phoenix, Ariz.; one grandson, Roger Stinson Jr. and his wife, Michele, of Lincoln; and two great-grandsons, William Christopher Stinson and Justyn Michael Stinson, both of Lincoln. Visiting hours will be held 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004, at Conroy Tully South Portland Chapel, 1024 Broadway, South Portland. Prayers will be recited at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday followed by a 9:00 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. John the Evangelist Church in South Portland. Burial will be at the Maine Veterans Cemetery, Augusta. Those desiring may make donations to Mercy Hospital 144 State St. Portland, ME 04102.
ALICE LOUISE O’DONNELL
