OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM ALITA'S DAUGHTER, JESSICA FAHLGREN::

Deceased Classmate: Alita Mae Jones
Graduation Year: 1948
Date Of Birth: 05-19-1930
Date Deceased: 11-06-1996
Age at Death: 66
Cause of Death: Lung Cancer
Classmate City: Wheeler
Classmate State: IN
Classmate Country: USA
Survived By: Joshua Mitchell - Son Jessica Fahlgren- Daughter Jeffery Mitchell- Son Grandchildren- Julia, Margaret, Paul Matthew, Andrew, Amelia, Joseph

My mother was beloved and missed to this day. She had such wonderful memories of her years at Hobart High School. She lived a full life, traveling abroad and living in the Middle East for some years. She settled in Ann Arbor Michigan with her husband Richard Mitchell who was a professor at the University of Michigan. She worked part-time at the History of Art Department and then the Residential College where she became the Director of Admissions. She loved to garden, cook, rattle cages at the Ann Arbor Board of Education meetings and support her children in their lives. Her smile lit up a room and her love of life was infectious. We still miss her, we will always love her. She was gone too soon.

The picture above was obtained from the 1948 HHS Memories yearbook, at: https://archive.org/details/brick-art-1948-images/page/n13/mode/2up.

TRIBUTE FROM CINDY SOWERS:

This tribute was obtained from: https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/rc-assets/rc-documents/For%20Alita%20Mitchell%201996.pdf.