Alice Marie Funk


Alice Funk, 82, a retired insurance clerk, died April 13 at Washington Hospital Center
in the District of injuries received in a fall.

She worked for Geico Insurance and then, for more than 20 years, at Banner Life
Insurance in Rockville before retiring in the mid-1980s.

Alice Marie Funk was born in Fremont, Iowa. The family moved to Washington when it
was forced off its farm during the Depression. She was a
1945 graduate of Eastern
High School.

She was a member of Ryland Epworth United Methodist Church in the District and
treasurer of the church's chapter of the United Methodist Women.

She was the historian for a local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
and for more than two decades, she was assigned to the C Street NW doors of
Constitution Hall during the DAR's annual convention.

Survivors include a brother.