When the sun came up 38,169 days ago, it shined on the new baby, Alice Lillian O’Donnell (Samuel) who was born on the O’Donnell farm near Rolla, N.D. The day was May 12, 1906.

She was welcomed by her parents Jim and Molly Muldoon O’Donnell and five siblings. Five more brothers and sisters were born after Alice. She out-lived them all.

Alice, known by many as Allah, became a teacher. She taught in one rooms schools in North Dakota and on Indian reservations in North Dakota and Montana.

She eventually moved west to Washington where she met and married John Samuel. They moved to Los Angeles, Calif. where Alice lived on Wilshire Boulevard for many years. Before she moved back to Washington, she lived for a time in Arkansas and Louisiana.

She settled in Seattle where she was near three of her five sisters. She moved to Whidbey Island and lived at Maple Ridge Assisted Living in Freeland before joining her niece, Bea and husband Jack Rawls, at Scatchet Head.

Alice spent her final year over-looking the sea, her flower garden and her bird feeder. She loved sitting in the sun, the countless neighbors who stopped by to chat, newspapers, watching the stock market, sunsets, ice cream, peppermints in her coffee, going for a ride, the neighbor’s cat, Tigger, and butter and salt on everything.

She is preceded in death by her parents, 10 siblings, and her husband, John. She is survived by her daughter, Susan Korn of Bellingham; her niece Michaela Murphy of Olympia; nephew, Pat Murphy of Langley; niece Bea and her husband Jack Rawls with whom she lived; the incredible women from Home Health; and her two best friends, Kathy and Sophie Rawls.

After 104 1/2 eventful and rewarding years, Alice died peacefully in her sleep after the sun went down on Oct. 8, 2010. She was a remarkable, funny, smart, classy lady who liked to bet on the ponies.

Friends and family may also view the online obituary, sign and leave messages at www.visserfuneralhome.com.