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 Project Awards to the City of Warwick for the restoration of Warwick City Hall (1892-94)
 

Sunday, September 28th

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         Alice and her sous chefs!

            Alice Mainson-Larter was, like our patron, St. Martin, a person who encompassed several cultures.  She was at home in France and the United States.
 

            She lived life to the full.  As a teenager in Occupied Paris during the Second World War, she clumped about in wooden shoes, because the Germans requisitioned leather for military purposes.  She served abroad transatlantic ocean liners during their heyday in the 1950's.  She socialized with Ernest Hemingway at his home in Havana.  She waited on Gloria Swanson, while working in a department store in Manhattan. 
 

            She had one child, Jacques, whom she loved and supported.  She was blessed with a wonderful daughter-in-law, C�line, and three grandchildren.  She loved and was loved by her husband, Ray.  They both felt at home in Normandy, at Carolles, where they modernized and expanded an 18th century granite farmhouse.  After moving there full time in 2005, they welcomed a host of St. Martin's parishioners to their home about 10 miles as the crow flies from Mt St-Michel.
 

            Alice was a vibrant force at St. Martin's.  She was fastidious about her duties with the Altar Guild.  She created delectable French dishes for many church dinners, including her signature p�t�s for the Christmas Bazaar.  She kept pace with parishioners decades younger than she during the annual Good Friday Walks.  However, she is undoubtedly best known, like St. Martin, for clothing the poor through the Cloak.  She would ascend the lectern, and in her mellifluously French-accented English, declaim: "Gentlemen, give me your pants!" 
 

            She held others to the same high standards to which she held herself.  She remained true to her indomitable Huguenot roots.  She had great faith in God.  If mountains needed to be moved, she, alone or with the help of others, would move them.  She was a devoted friend and mentor to many on both shores of the Atlantic. 
 

            At her memorial service in Normandy, the parish priest in Carolles referred to her as "La Grande Dame de Carolles."  She is known to us as "La Grande Dame de Saint-Martin." 
 

David Whitman