Alice P. Ober, teacher and volunteer at Ladew Topiary Gardens, dies

Alice P. Ober, a retired kindergarten teacher who was a longtime volunteer at Ladew Topiary Gardens, died Sunday of complications from dementia at her Monkton farm. She was 87. The daughter of Raeburn H. Parker, treasurer of Air Corp. Co., and Alice Lawrence Parker, a second cousin of Winston Churchill, Alice Parker was born in New York City and raised in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. She attended Kent Place School in Summit, N.J., and the Mary C. Wheeler School in Providence, R.I., and graduated from St. Mary's School in Peekskill, N.Y. Mrs. Ober opened Parker's Place, a preschool in Tuxedo Park, and later became a full-time kindergarten teacher at the Brick Church School on Park Avenue in New York City.
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