Alice Allen Weeks Bruce passed away suddenly Sunday, March 16, 2025. She lived a full life of learning, teaching and traveling. A private family memorial is planned for a future date.
Alice was born July 3, 1928 in Hearne, Texas to Mary Ellen and Allen Weeks. As a child her family took many interesting train trips with her father’s railroad passes. Trips to California to visit extended family and a trip to Chicago for the 1933 World’s Fair were her most memorable.
She graduated from Hearne High School in 1945 and then from Texas Woman’s university in 1948. Being a scholar of high intelligence, she earned Bachelor’s Degree with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Math, graduating in three years. As Captain and college champion of the University Golf Team, Alice made headlines winning many golf tournaments.
Alice began her educational career as a math teacher in the Kirkwood School District at North Kirkwood Middle School, later ascending to the position of middle school Math Department Head for the district. After she earned her Master’s Degree from Webster University, she went on to also teach math at Saint Louis Community College at Meramec. She fully retired in 1991.
Alice had a passion for travel and spent many summers traveling the United States from Maine to Alaska visiting family and seeing historic sights. Later she traveled the states researching family genealogy with her sister. She also loved traveling all over the world enjoying countries such as Ireland, Switzerland, Germany and Turkey.
Alice is survived by three of her four children: Mary Alice Bruce of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Lee Bruce of Prosper, Texas; and Ginny Bruce Scroggs of Saint Louis, Missouri. She was proud of the accomplishments of her seven grandchildren and looking to the future for her thirteen great-grandchildren with the fourteenth on the way. She was preceded in death by her sister Mary Ellen Ikard Gregory in 2011 and her daughter Margaret Bruce Saxton in 2013.
If desired, memorials may be made in her name to Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis Zoo or Kirkwood United Methodist Church.