Alicia Caley

Alicia Bradford Caley, a lifelong resident of Cedar Falls, passed away at the Western Home Communities Deery Suites on September 9, 2018.  She was born April 19, 1933 in Cedar Falls to Lloyd Bradford Snider and Ruth Marshall Allen Snider.  On July 28, 1952 she married Richard 'Dick' Caley at the First United Methodist Church. They later divorced.  Alicia graduated from Cedar Falls High School in 1951, attended Cornell College from 1951-52 and the University of Northern Iowa from 1966-68.  Her community activities included: Chapter R PEO; Cedar Falls Historical Society; Friends of the Cedar Falls Library; and the First United Methodist Church and Mary Circle.  In 1998 she retired from the Cedar Falls Schools after 30 years of service.

Those left to honor her memory are son, Thomas (Kathryn) Bradford Caley, of Cedar Falls and daughter, Susan Alicia Caley, of West Des Moines; grandson Michael (Pam) Bradford Caley of Clive and granddaughter Ann (Clint) Maurine Gutknecht of Reinbeck; her three great grandchildren, Chad Roger and Cheyanne Kathryn Gutknecht and Lucas Bradford Caley; her sister, Elinor Ann Miller, of Greenwood, SC and her brother, Donald Allen 'Al' Snider (Joyce), of Steamboat Springs, CO, and many nieces and nephews.

Alicia was preceded in death by her parents and her brother-in-law, Erwin 'Erv' Miller.

She will be remembered for her love of family, creating beautiful needlework gifts, a love of reading and old movies, the dolls she collected from her many travels, being everyone's first pick for a Trivial Pursuit team, helping with various church projects and her cooking.

Service will be 10:30 a.m. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2018, at First United Methodist Church, with private burial at Fairview Cemetery, both in Cedar Falls.  Visitation will be one hour before service at the church.  In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Cedar Falls Public Library or Cedar Valley Hospice.  Condolences may be left at www.DahlFuneralHome.com.