Alice Guthrie

Alice Guthrie, age 84, of Gatesville went to be with the Lord surrounded by her family on Friday, January 06, 2017. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2016 at Scott’s Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Steve Bogan officiating. Burial will follow at Post Oak Cemetery. The family will receive visitors beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday evening at the funeral home. Alice was born November 26, 1932 in Oglesby, Texas to the late Lee and Edith (Bankhead) Bates. She graduated Oglesby High School in 1950. She retired from Texas Department of Corrections in Gatesville in 1991. She enjoyed gardening, painting pictures and eating lunch with her sisters in McGregor. She was an active member of Calvary Baptist Church in Gatesville. She married Robert Guthrie on February 14, 1976. Alice was preceded in death by her husbands, David Henry Witt in 1974 and Robert Guthrie in 2010; siblings, Ida Mae Baker , Irene Baker, Annie Lee Bates, Bernice Bates and Wilma Riley; granddaughter Laura Guthrie; great-granddaughter, Sammie Jo Weaver. Alice is survived by daughters, Cindy Walts and husband, Gary of Speegleville, Sandra Thompson of Texarkana; sons, Mike Witt and wife, Shirley of Crawford, Steve Witt of Gatesville, Kenneth Guthrie and wife, Ann of Texarkana; grandchildren, Michelle Davis, Melinda Weaver, Katrina Grieger, Corey Witt, Casey Witt, Racheal Witt, Alicia Guthrie, Kayla Fleming, Brandon Thompson and Jeramy Thompson and 17 great-grandchildren; sisters, Ruth Brinkley of Oglesby and EvaNell Terry of Robinson.