Name: Rev. Alice Hamilton Davies Date: March 18th, 1921 - March 3rd, 2009 Obituary: The Reverend Alice Hamilton Davies, RN, BS, M. Div, A.P.C. of Brunswick, Maine and Twilight Park, Haines Falls, N.Y. died Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at Maine Medical Center. Her husband of almost 62 years, Dr. Dean F. Davies, MD, predeceased her on March 17, 2008. She is survived by her children, David Hamilton Davies of Wiscasset, Nancy Fletcher Davies of Northampton, MA, Susan Davies and her husband, David Halliwell of Clinton, ME and Beth (Davies) Young and her husband, Russell E.Young of Chelsea, ME. Her grandchildren, Christie, David, Caleb and Morgan Young and Stephanie (Young) Audet, and Benjamin and Briana Halliwell will miss her deeply, as will the family of Don Le and his wife Nga and their sons, Van and Don. Don Le became a member of the Davies extended family in 1975, having been sponsored by Dean and Alice as a Vietnamese foster son. She is also survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Herb and Kay Hamilton of Marietta, GA., and their family. Alice’s lifelong calling has been to faith and ethical issues in health and medical settings, advocacy for equal access to health care for all, and education in congregations about lay ministry and ministries of healing and pastoral care at the end of life. She will be remembered in the Bath-Brunswick area for her inspired and devoted service in the ministry as a United Church of Christ chaplain and pastor, having served: as chaplain to the CHANS Hospice, on the board of Mid-Coast Volunteer Hospice, as Minister for Parish Life at First Parish Church in Brunswick, and as interim minister or supply minister at several other UCC churches, and as member and chair of the Brunswick Area Interfaith Council. Alice took an active role in the reorganization of the Pastoral Care Dept. at Mid-Coast Hospital; and was a member of Witness of Life Committee of the Maine UCC Conference. For six years Alice served the UCC National Entity as a member and Vice President of its Health and Welfare Coordinating Council. Alice Wilmot Hamilton was born in Englewood, New Jersey on March 18, 1921, the older of two children of Esther (Wilmot) Price Hamilton and Herbert Mark Hamilton. She was awarded an R.N. and B.S. from the School of Nursing, Columbia University and served on the faculty of the School of Nursing shortly after graduation. She married Dean Fletcher Davies on April 20th, 1946, when he was a medical resident at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Thus began a lifelong conversation built on their shared values and commitment to leave the world a better place for disadvantaged people. After working and raising young children in St Louis, MO and Tenafly, NJ, the Davies moved to Memphis, shortly before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. While in Memphis, she received a BS in Public Health Administration from University of Memphis and worked as Health Director of the Memphis Head Start program. The City of Memphis recognized Alice for her founding and leadership role in organizing an interfaith and interracial volunteer service, the Johnson Auxiliary, for the City of Memphis Hospitals, which served the poor of Memphis who had been refused service at the other hospitals of the city. They trained 500 volunteers from 1971-78 to “stand with the poor who are sick”. The Auxiliary continues today 33 years later to serve. Dean’s work took them back to NYC in 1978, where they became active members of Riverside Church. Alice served as Director of Social Service and Coordinator of Pastoral Ministries for five years. Following a call to the ministry, she returned to school again in 1984, and earned a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in N.Y.C in 1988. Upon completion of her seminary work, she began working as a full time chaplain, organizing a new department of pastoral care at Wayne General Hospital in New Jersey. Her life is best described by her own view of the cross of Jesus Christ: “the upward shaft representing the believer’s relationship to God through Christ, nourished and supported by prayer, meditation and study. The horizontal bar as one’s connection with the world, motivated, energized, sustained and directed by the Holy Spirit.” Her tireless energy, enthusiasm, and encouragement to others was evidence to all who knew her that she was, indeed, compelled by a Power not her own. Throughout her life, she dedicated herself to answering the call of Jesus in Matthew 25, “Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these, my brethren, you have done it unto me.” She said, “I believe that God works through persons, and that I am bound to be a servant by love, gratitude, and a God-given push or pull toward human beings in need.” Alice and Dean made their home in Maine in the summer of 1992 to be near their children and grandchildren, and to fulfill a lifetime longing to live near the ocean. They lived in Harpswell for the first 13 years, and then moved to Brunswick in 2005. Most of all, she will be remembered for her untiring spirit, offering the gift of herself, with undying love to her family, her friends and the greater community. Services: 2:00PM at First Parish Church on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 (map/driving directions)