Alice Higgins Bentley

January 26, 1935 - June 14, 2006

Facebook

Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home-Big Spring

Friday 6/16, 4:00 pm

Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home

3800 N. Big Spring St

Midland, Texas 79705

Thursday 6/15, 8:10 am

Alice Higgins Bentley, 71, of Big Spring, died on Wednesday, June 14, 2006, in a local hospital. Funeral services will be held at 4:00 PM Friday, June 16, 2006 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel with Rev. Dennis Teeters, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park.The family will receive friends from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Thursday at the funeral home.She was born on January 26, 1935, in Gorman, Texas and married Harold Bentley on November 28, 1956 in Lovington, New Mexico.Alice moved to Big Spring in 1952. She was a hairdresser in Big Spring for 32 years and was a member of the Hairdressers Association until it disbanded. She enjoyed learning new hairstyles and then teaching them to new hairstylists. Alice enjoyed dollmaking, sewing and especially enjoyed her work.She was a member of First Baptist Church and a member of Western Drifters RV Club. After retiring in 1985 they spent the next 12 years traveling for about 6 months out of each year. Survivors include her husband, Harold Bentley of Big Spring; two sons and daughters-in-law, David and Karen Bentley of Austin and Robert and Cheryll Bentley of Los Angeles, California; one granddaughter, Molly Bentley and a very special friend, Kathy Caudill. The family suggests memorials be made to a favorite charity.Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com,