Eleanor Louise (Adore) (Bright) Bice |
| Posted 2010-07-13 by susan |
| BICE, Eleanor Louise Bright, born October 21, 1917 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, to parents, Graham and Pearl Wells Bright. Eleanor Louise Bright was the fourth of five siblings, all now deceased: Alice, Paul, Phillip, Eleanor, and David. Eleanor passed peacefully in her sleep on July 3, 2010, in Los Angeles, California, after a brief illness. As a child Eleanor was given the nickname "Adore", which she kept for the rest of her life. From an early age, Adore was known for her outgoing personality and her mischievous sense of adventure. Adore loved learning and she pursued higher education, receiving a Master of Arts in Social Work from the Margaret Morrison College at Carnegie Technical University. Through her adult life Adore practiced her career, specializing in adoptions for both private and government agencies, while caring for her children. Adore married Kenneth Lowell Bice on August 7, 1941. The couple moved to the small town of Princeton, Massachusetts in 1950 and raised five sons. Adore taught her boys the values of courage, honesty, appreciation of nature, and the value of higher education. The family spent each summer camping in the wilderness of a small, remote island off the coast of Maine, while Adore applied bandages to the boys' scrapes and recorded the minutiae of everyday life in one of her many travel diaries. As the boys grew and Kenneth's career advanced, the family moved from Princeton in 1964, settling first in Philadelphia and then in Los Angeles, until Ken and Adore retired to live on their beloved sailboat "Aden". Then leaving the sea, they set off in a travel trailer, spending several years pursuing adventure all around the U.S. Adore's drive to make friends with everyone she met helped the couple to forge many lifelong friendships during those travels. Adore and Ken ultimately settled in Green Valley, Arizona. There they developed a large circle of new friends and engaged in a very active retirement, learning ceramics and silversmithing, and even patrolling in uniform with the Pima County Sherriff's auxiliary. Adore volunteered for many years at Madera Canyon and at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, where she especially loved explaining her fascination with nature to area school children. Adore lost Ken in 1990, but she kept busy and active for over 20 years in Green Valley, volunteering at many clubs and service organizations. Recently, for health reasons, Adore had moved back to Los Angeles to be near her children. Adore is survived by her sons, Peter Kenneth, Christopher Paul, David Clifford, Timothy Richard, and Jeffrey Graham, plus numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A Celebration of the life of Eleanor "Adore" Bice will be held at a time and place to be determined. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, a contribution in memory of Kenneth and Eleanor Bice be made to Casa de Esperanza, 780 S. Park Center, Green Valley, AZ 85614. Published in the Tucson Newspapers on July 11, 2010 |
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