Alice Moulton passed away peacefully after a brief illness on Thursday, August 11, 2022, at the age of 83.
Alice Moulton was born in Winterton, Newfoundland in 1938, the daughter of Edward and Victoria Green. She earned a BA degree from Memorial University in St. Johns, Newfoundland, and devoted her life to teaching children, working for many years as a Teacher-Librarian in Winnipeg, Manitoba, at Lansdowne, Faraday, Cecil Rhodes, and Norquay elementary schools. She began teaching in a local school in Newfoundland at age sixteen, and in the early 1960s she taught in London while her husband, Edward Moulton was doing PhD work.
Alice married Edward Moulton in Newfoundland in 1960. They were married for fifty-nine years, until Edward’s death in 2019. Alice is survived by her brother Gerald Green, her son, Ian, her daughter, Celia, her daughter-in-law Wendy Williams, and her grand-child Fio.
Alice retired from teaching in the 1990s and devoted herself to volunteer work, especially with the Osu Children’s Library Fund in Ghana, run by her good friend Kathy Knowles. She also collaborated for many years with her husband Edward, on a volume published by Oxford University Press in 2005 of the papers of Allen Octavian Hume, a nineteenth century British civil servant who played a role in the early years of Indian nationalism.
Alice loved children, gardening, birds, and her pets. She was an avid reader, especially fond of the work of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence. She travelled widely, living in the UK and India for several years. In retirement she and her husband spent winters in Desert Hot Springs, California, where she loved to see the desert wildflowers every Spring.
A Memorial Service for Alice Moulton will be held at 2:00pm on Saturday, October 1, at Harrow United Church, 955 Mulvey Ave, Winnipeg R3M 1G8. Alice had been an active member of Harrow Church since the 1960s.
In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made in Alice’s name either to Osu Children’s Library Fund (OCLF) or to Amnesty International, an organization that she supported for many years, writing countless letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience around the world.
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Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Alice Moulton Thursday August 11th 2022..
Death notice for the town of: Winnipeg, Province: Manitoba