🪦 Rest in Peace Alice Brock, THEE 'Alice' of Alice's Restaurant Fame.

[Halasían]

Bad News on the Thanksgiving doorstep today. Alice Brock passed away at age 83. I knew she had a lot of health problems and I donated to a GoFundMe page to help pay some medical bills back in 2020. She took the time to thank all her donors with an email...

"To all the very dear kind and generous folks who chipped in to my GoFundMe page. It went over the top and I am overwhelmed by the response. The comments that people wrote are heartwarming and I hope I don't get a swelled head. Everyone has a story and I appreciate you sharing yours with me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Peace and Love to All, Alice”

As a kid, I loved hearing the story-song Alice's Restaurant on KOL 94.1 FM in Seattle. At 18½ minutes, only the underground backwater FM sister station of KOL 1300 AM could get away with playing it. In the 1970s I first saw the movie that was made, and I think my girlfriend and I were at the drive-in just about every day it showed that week. Alice of course was played by actress Pat Quinn, but she had a cameo in the movie's thanksgiving scene as the woman who answered the ringing phone.

Alice, Richard, and Arlo on the step of 'the church' on Thanksgiving 2022.
Arlo and Richard were the notorious 'litterers' in the story, which actually happened.

Rest easy Alice Brock. Ageing Children, she was one...

 

[Halasían]

Alice Brock's Obituary.

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Alice May Brock, a giant of a human being who touched people all over the world, left this earth on Nov. 21 at the age of 83. After recent years of courageous struggle with ill health, she was finally able to slip away comfortably and peacefully at The Lily House hospice in Wellfleet, MA.

Alice was the furthest thing from a statistic, so none here. If you want facts, Google her... since she's a "famous person". Not by personal choice, and through a bizarre series of circumstances, she became a touchstone and icon for thousands, over multiple generations. There's that amazing song, there's a movie, there are personal stories shared by individuals everywhere. If you knew her, or even just knew about her, you understand what we're talking about.

Alice was an artist. In every sense of the word. She consumed life voraciously (just the way she read books) and gave back to countless people with a rush of richness. Her own creative gifts were abundant and remarkable. Countless paintings and drawings, several published books and her famous, whimsical painted rocks, placed by the hundreds all over the globe on beaches and roadways, in museums and on mountain tops. A sublime alchemist, she reveled in creating improbable and magnificent combinations from the most improbable and unlikely of sources.

She was a legendary cook/chef whose passion was feeding people. She had restaurants, of course, and was the toughest boss imaginable, but those who survived walked away fuller and more confident people. Perhaps her greatest gift was her ability to bring out the very best and the very unexpected in the people and things around her.

Her generosity to anyone in need often left her in precarious financial position. Several years ago in her beloved Provincetown, MA, friends ran a Go Fund Me for her. This comment on the site says it all: "Years ago Alice gave me a job for which I was completely unqualified. I worked my ass off. She yelled at me all summer long. It was the best job of my life. Here's $25."

Alice is survived by her chosen family of friends, many of whom have remained close since the 1960's. So how to honor her? It begs the question: what would Alice do? Ponder something beautiful offered by nature; lose yourself in a painting; listen to some meaningful music; savor a good meal. Or, importantly, just reach out - as she would say - to a fellow human 'bean'.

Please consider supporting The Lily House in Wellfleet, MA. www.thelilyhouse.org The people there are angels on earth.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
Published by The Berkshire Eagle on Nov. 26, 2024.

 

[Vardarianna]

My grandmother met Alice Brock in 1969 when they stopped in Stockbridge Massachusetts after they left Woodstock.

 

[kellyknit]

Alice Brock's Obituary.

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Alice May Brock, a giant of a human being who touched people all over the world, left this earth on Nov. 21 at the age of 83. After recent years of courageous struggle with ill health, she was finally able to slip away comfortably and peacefully at The Lily House hospice in Wellfleet, MA.

Alice was the furthest thing from a statistic, so none here. If you want facts, Google her... since she's a "famous person". Not by personal choice, and through a bizarre series of circumstances, she became a touchstone and icon for thousands, over multiple generations. There's that amazing song, there's a movie, there are personal stories shared by individuals everywhere. If you knew her, or even just knew about her, you understand what we're talking about.

Alice was an artist. In every sense of the word. She consumed life voraciously (just the way she read books) and gave back to countless people with a rush of richness. Her own creative gifts were abundant and remarkable. Countless paintings and drawings, several published books and her famous, whimsical painted rocks, placed by the hundreds all over the globe on beaches and roadways, in museums and on mountain tops. A sublime alchemist, she reveled in creating improbable and magnificent combinations from the most improbable and unlikely of sources.

She was a legendary cook/chef whose passion was feeding people. She had restaurants, of course, and was the toughest boss imaginable, but those who survived walked away fuller and more confident people. Perhaps her greatest gift was her ability to bring out the very best and the very unexpected in the people and things around her.

Her generosity to anyone in need often left her in precarious financial position. Several years ago in her beloved Provincetown, MA, friends ran a Go Fund Me for her. This comment on the site says it all: "Years ago Alice gave me a job for which I was completely unqualified. I worked my ass off. She yelled at me all summer long. It was the best job of my life. Here's $25."

Alice is survived by her chosen family of friends, many of whom have remained close since the 1960's. So how to honor her? It begs the question: what would Alice do? Ponder something beautiful offered by nature; lose yourself in a painting;

Lose herself in painting I would say. Rest in peace Alice.