The life of Alice Rownes Maertz (1919-2005)
This mini-biography is of my grandmother, Alice Mae (Rownes) Maertz. She was born in Florida, the 4th of 5 girls, in 1919. After her father left them for the Pacific Northwest, Alice and her sisters were raised in Iowa on her grandparents’ farm. She had five girls herself, but that story isn’t as straightforward as we always thought.