Obituary of Alice B Laird

Alice Boe Laird, beloved mother and cherished friend, died peacefully July 16 at Cove’s Edge Long-Term Care Facility in Damariscotta. She was born in 1930 in Wyckoff, NJ. For the next 80 years, she would remain a resident of Wyckoff. After graduation from Ramsey High School in 1948, she worked as a telephone operator and office secretary. In 1952, she married Eivind H. Boe and became a homemaker and mother. In 1974 her husband Eivind passed away. For the next ten years she worked first as a bank teller and later as a travel agent. In 1984, she married Norman M. Laird. Norm and Alice continued to travel the world over till his death in 2005. Alice was predeceased by her parents and her siblings: brothers John and David and sister Dale Brown. She is survived by her son, Eivind A. Boe and his wife Ann C. Boe, their daughter Bronwen E. Boe and her fiancé Shawn E. Grooms, and their daughter Miranda A. Boe; and by Alice’s daughter Sylvia B. Taylor, Sylvia’s daughter Abbey Taylor, Abbey’s husband Jesse Wohlleb, their son Dylan, and Sylvia’s son Travis B. Taylor.