Alice Zimple of Traer died Friday. She is the fourth person Traer United Methodist Church has lost this year, including one to COVID-19. Her obituary is here.
Alice was the heart of Traer UMC’s kitchen, no matter what the event. She was the person I had in mind when I wrote in 2004, “One day, someone is going to die, no one who coordinated funeral potlucks for the past 25 years will be able to help, and there won’t be any younger people to take their place.”
In a bitter irony, there will be no funeral luncheon tomorrow for the woman who organized a countless number of them.