Alice Mae Perkins was born April 10, 1927 near Rose Oklahoma to Thomas Belvin Bledsoe Perkins and Montie Pearl (Wolf) Perkins. She departed this life on March 13, 2023 at 3:00 PM from the effects of a massive stroke. She was 95 years old and still a strong fully functioning human being with a strong mind.

Alice grew up and lived in the area around Rose, and never liked to travel much. Only occasions like weddings were important enough to get her to travel. She attended and graduated school in Rose where most of the time she had to walk a mile from her home down a dirt road. She helped raise her younger siblings and was very close to them to the end.

She married H.C. Quantie on December 27, 1945 in Fayetteville, Arkansas after a very short courtship. To this union were born 5 children, Ernest Lee Quantie, Joyce Elaine Quantie Gill, Harold Gene Quantie, Pamela Annette Quantie, and Lewis Jay Quantie.

Alice loved her family and spent as much time with them as she could. She was a great cook and was always ready to cook for visiting family members. She totally believed in the “Golden Rule” and lived by it till her death. She instilled in her children a deep work ethic that helped them to be successful in their lives. She was never afraid of work and was always ready to tackle any job that showed up. Helping her cut sprouts and working the cattle was a common after school task for the children.

Alice was an avid quilter and any spare time was spent in quilting. She got the quilting skills from her mother who was also an active quilter. She made multiple quilts for her children and many of her grandchildren.

She really loved the cattle she had and named most of them. Haying, helping in birth and milking were common tasks for her. She loved the land and was an avid gardener, raising much of the food stuffs that the family ate. She taught her children to eat what is on the table or you may be hungry later ethic. Even though the family was not affluent, no one ever went hungry or felt poor.

Alice was preceded in death by: her parents; her husbands: H.C. Quantie and Melvin Gene Coday; 3 brothers: Stanley Wilson Perkins, Thomas (Billy) Belvin Perkins, and Lawrence Perkins; 1 sister: Nellie Ray Perkins Turner; 1 daughter: Joyce Elaine Quantie Gill.

She is survived by; 1 brother: Amos Clement Perkins and wife Betty Lou (Wilkinson) Perkins; 3 sons: Ernest Lee Quantie and wife Gail Dee (Bagley) Gaulding, Harold Gene Quantie and wife Connie Sue (Blackford) Quantie, and Lewis Jay Quantie and wife Deeann M. (Crouch) Quantie; 1 daughter: Pamela Annette Quantie; 7 grand kids and multiple great grandchildren.

Alice was loved by many and will be sorely missed as she was the bond that held the family together. We all have many fond memories of our childhood at home.

The family ask that donations be made to Rose Cemetery c/o Wendell Wolf, 4791 S. 447, Salina, Oklahoma 74365. Memorial services were held 10:00 A.M., Thursday, March 23, 2023, at the First Baptist Church in Locust Grove, Oklahoma. Reverend Roy Evans and Reverend Blake Wallace officiated. Cremation services were entrusted to the Locust Grove Funeral Home.