Alice O. Walimaki

Alice O. Walimaki, longtime Maple, WI resident, died Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at Middle River Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born on May 26, 1918 in Maple, WI to Matthew and Elizabeth (Hillberg) Wuori.

Alice married Arvo Walimaki on June 18, 1944 in Lawton, OK and they celebrated fifty-nine years of marriage before his passing in 2003.

She was a lifelong member of the Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church. Alice loved gardening, canning, making rugs and soap. She worked in various Army Hospitals on the West Coast during World War II, including Tacoma, WA, Palo Alto and Los Angeles, CA.

Alice is survived by two daughters, Clarene Jakubek, Maple, WI and Bonnie (Douglas) Devorak, Shakopee, MN; one son, Clifford Walimaki, Maple, WI; three grandsons, Jim Walimaki, Nick and Kevin Gille; two granddaughters, Renee Erickson and Natalie Cass; two great-granddaughters, Ashley and Molly Erickson and one great-grandson, Gabriel Cass.

She is preceded in death by husband Arvo in 2003, infant daughter Nancy in 1947, her parents, sisters Betty Larson, Mae Luostari and Ellen Hill, brothers Oiva, Sam, Ernest, Raymond, Paul and John Wuori.

Visitation will begin at 12:00 PM, on Monday, May 9, 2016 in the Lenroot-Maetzold Funeral Home, 1209 E. 5th Street, Superior and continue until the 1:00 PM funeral service.

Burial will be in the Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Cemetery in Maple, WI.

To leave an online condolence or to sign the guestbook, please visit www.lenroot-maetzold.com .