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Miss Alice Banning Dies, Former News Employee

Miss Alice Banning Dies,
Former News Employee
Miss Alice Crocker Banning, 84, for most of her life a resident of Newport, died Friday afternoon in a Middletown nursing home after a long illness. Born in Providence. Oct. 8, 1868, she was a daughter of the Rev. Carlos Banning and Harriet Elizabeth Pitman Banning and a niece of T. T. Pitman, for many years publisher of the Daily News. She was educated in the Newport schools, and was a student of music and a pianist of ability.
Miss Banning served for some years on the editorial staff of the Daily News, and was its music reviewer. A member of St. Paul's Methodist Church, she was long its historian. She lived for many years in an apartment of the Maudsley House at 228 Spring St., serving as its custodian for the New England Society for the Preservation of Antiquities.
Miss Banning, an aunt of Donald P. Thurston, was the last surviving member of her immediate family. She leaves a niece, Miss Bernice Banning of Ojai. Cal.; and a number of grandnieces and grand nephews, including Miss Dorothy B. Gladding, Mrs. Dwight C. Hambly and Miss Sonya Thurston of Newport; Mrs. Lloyd Dyer of Spencer, Mass. Capt. Douglas V. Gladding, USN. of Gloucester, Mass : Brenton and Malcolm Thurston.
Services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Hambly Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Island Cemetery.
--Newport Daily News, Newport, Rhode Island, January 3, 1953 Page 2

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