ALICE M. FARIS

CHARLESTON -- Alice Martha Faris, 92, of Ironton, formerly of Charleston, died Thursday, May 13, 1993, at Missouri Baptist Home in Ironton.

She was born June 10, 1899, at Wolf Island, daughter of John Crockett and Amy Lydia Faris Jr.

Faris attended Hardin College at Mexico, Mo., and graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1951. She began her 45-year teaching career in 1920 at Charleston Schools.

She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she had been a Sunday School teacher and director, and helped establish Vacation Bible School in 1926. She was a member of Charleston Retired Teachers Association.

Survivors include a niece, Mary Melchert of Spokane, Wash.; four cousins, Wilbur Faris of Ironton, Ann Siebert of Pilot Knob, Margaret Trevathan and Rick Howton of East Prairie.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church. The Rev. Gerald Collier will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery.

Friends may call 5-8 p.m. Saturday at McMikle Funeral Home.