Alice Faye(Wilson) Kerry

With profound sadness we announce the passing of Alice Faye, our loving and devoted mother and friend to all whose lives she touched, on August 21, 2024. She left us while sleeping peacefully at her residence in Patterson, Louisiana. She was in her 81st year.

Born in Dallas, Texas, the youngest of six children to the late Clarence & Nancy Wilson. Alice married her high school sweetheart Merrick “Buddy” Kerry and moved to south Louisiana to start their family. Her husband Buddy worked in the Oilfield industry which led them to live abroad and enjoy other cultures in Abadan, Iran and Salvador, Bahia Brazil. Alice lived a vivid well-rounded life as a wonderful mother, homemaker, community volunteer as beauty pageant director, member of the Franklin Lions Club and she enjoyed working at a Farm Feed Store and as a Beauty Consultant for Mary Kay Cosmetics. Alice also worked in Debt Collections, as well as in the women’s retail industry as a Fashion Consultant at Ouida’s for Women & Co-founder & Buyer for LuLu’s Boutique in Morgan City. She was a master in the kitchen, created beloved holiday dishes that brought joy and warmth to her family year after year. Everyone looked forward to her cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, flan and big breakfast that always included Texas white cream gravy.

Those left to cherish Alice’s beautiful memory are her dear sister Nancy Griffith, her loving companion Lennis Callahan and her three devoted daughters Susan Kerry of Lafayette, Sandra Swope (Claude) of Sulphur, Sharon Dohmann (Joey) of Berwick. She was a loving grandmother to Kansas & Dakota Swope, Caroline Ellis (Hunter), Savanna Uze (Zach), Olivia Thibodeaux, Gweneth, Mary-Alice, Vincent and Adeline Dohmann and great grandmother to Ava & Kellan Swope, Noah, Connor, Hayes & Addison Ellis, Merrick & Lucille Uze.

Alice was Baptist in faith, and in her later years she attended services at Bethel Pentecostal Church in Patterson and also enjoyed watching television evangelists on Sunday mornings. She was a country girl at heart, in her teen years her family moved to a 100 acre farm and that’s when she fell in love with riding her horse “Dixie”. Alice enjoyed working alongside her husband in the yard, and doing projects at their camp. Art was also a passion of hers, she studied under renowned artist Janet Robinson. She enjoyed all types of music and loved to dance. Alice enjoyed going regularly to estate sales, growing her orchids and watching the hummingbirds and doves in her backyard. 

Alice will be remembered for her tenacity, whit, charm and brutal honesty and undying love and care for her family and friends. She always told the truth, even if it wasn’t what you wanted to hear. Everyone always knew where they stood with her, she liked you or she didn’t!

Affectionately known by family and friends as Mom, Mama, Mother, MeMaw, Aunt Poodie, Aliwicious, Alice Faye, Vern, My Girl and Beautiful. Although she lived in Louisiana, Alice was a proud Texan; she always said, everything is Bigger and Better in Texas! She had a flawless complexion, a captivating smile and stunning baby blue eyes.

She is reunited in heaven with her husband of 47 years, Merrick Oliver “Buddy” Kerry; her parents, Clarence & Nancy Wilson; three brothers Elmo, Paul & Charles Lee Wilson and her sister, Biddie Ann Arnold.

A time of visitation and remembrance will be held for Alice on Thursday, August 29, 2024 from 9:30am until 11:00am with a celebration of Alice's life beginning at 11:00am at Hargrave Funeral Home in Morgan City, LA. Alice will be laid to rest alongside her husband, Merrick, in the Emmanuel Family Cemetery in Chopin, LA following a 5:00pm graveside service on Thursday, August 29, 2024.

Honorary pallbearers for Alice will be; Joey Dohmann, Vincent Dohmann, Claude Swope and Dakota Swope.

The family wishes to acknowledge deep appreciation to her care givers Raychel Gray, Alma Arguijo, Ann Luke, Deborah Lodrigue, Dannette Bowers, Cheryl Benedietto, Takesha Brown, Vickie Daigle and dear friend & hairstylist Zoie Mahaffey

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions be made to your local Animal shelters, ASPCA, Retired & Disabled American Veterans, Children’s Hospital New Orleans LCMC Health and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.