Alona C. Litwack

TUNBRIDGE—Alona C. Litwack, 103, died Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at the Mayo Healthcare Facility in Northfield. She was born July 19, 1904, in Northfield, the daughter of Augustus and Edalena (Fisk) Boardman.

She graduated from Chelsea High School before attending Goddard Teachers College in Barre. She taught school for a few years at the West Hill School in Chelsea.

She met John (Jack) Lalley from Quincy, Mass., while they were both working at a summer camp on Lake Morey. They married in 1927 and she worked at Edison Light in Massachusetts. They eventually divorced and she moved to Miami Beach, Fla., in 1939, joining her sister Hilda there.

She met and married Daniel Litwack in 1945 in Florida. He was in the food business and they traveled across the country helping set up hotels and restaurants, the last being in Las Vegas, Nev. at the MGM Grand. While living there, they entertained many friends and family from Vermont. Her husband died there in 1976.

She moved back to Miami Beach and lived in Florida until 1996, when she moved back to Tunbridge to be close to her family. Over the years she lived in Vermont, Massachusetts, Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, and Panama in Central America.

She was an animal lover. She and Danny raised three boxers and all her dogs were like her children. She later had a schnauzer and a pug. Her favorite pets as a young girl were her horses, Wild Rose and Patsy.

She loved golf and played eight holes, three days a week until age 92. She also liked watching golf on television and named her pug "Tiger," after one of her favorite players. She enjoyed watching college football and politics.

Survivors include two sisters, Hilda Rogers of Tunbridge and Selma Walker of Montpelier; several nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her husband; seven brothers, Leonard, Herb, Ted, William, Vernon, Edwin and Augusta, Jr.; and three sisters, Evelyn, Lillian, and Dorothy.

There are no public calling hours. A graveside funeral service will be held at the Spring Road Cemetery in Tunbridge later this spring.

The Boardway & Cilley Funeral Home on Main Street in Chelsea is in charge of arrangements.

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