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Alice Brock

Alice Jones Brock, formerly of Coral Gables, Fla., and presently of Winston-Salem, N.C., died peacefully on Sunday, July 27, 2014. She was 96 years old . She was an accomplished artist for over 75 years with innumerable paintings to her credit. Mrs. Brock was born in Fayetteville, Ark., on Nov. 16, 1917. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arkansas with postgraduate work in art at the University of Washington. Her credentials also included studies at the Vesper George School of Art in Boston, the William J. Shultz Art School in Lenox, Mass., and the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in Miami. After her graduate studies in Boston, she moved to the Republic of Panama to work for the United States Army during World War II. While in Panama, she traveled to a number of South American countries on Army planes headed north and south. She visited Machu Pichu, Peru, during this period and traveled to the ruins on horseback. It was in Panama where she met her husband of 57 years, the late J. Dan Brock. A resident of Winston-Salem, N.C. since 2000, she lived with her husband and family in Coral Gables, Fla., for nearly 40 years. During this time, she was an active artist in her studio and traveled worldwide. Mrs. Brock's work focused on oil portraits and landscapes. She traveled around the world painting scenes from locales as famous as the Taj Mahal to tiny villages deep in rural France. Her favorite art trips abroad were with fellow artists staying in small and remote villages. She was a member of numerous art organizations including the Professional Artists' Guild (national) and the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem. Mrs. Brock was intensely proud of her mother and father, both of whom were educators. Her mother, formerly of Franklin, N.C., was the first female graduate of Trinity College (later to become Duke University) and received her masters from Columbia University. Her father received his PhD from Harvard University after growing up in rural eastern Tennessee. In the 1920s, her parents instilled the spirit of travel in Alice by taking her on long summer road trips over dirt and gravel roads that crisscrossed the western states. She loved to tell stories about life growing up and the many experiences she shared with her parents and sisters, especially trips in their 1925 Ford model T. She was predeceased by her parents, Isabel Elias Jones and Virgil Laurens Jones; her husband, J. Dan Brock; and her sisters, Dorothy Jones MacLane and Isabel Jones Rath. She is survived by a loving and close-knit family, including her son, J. Daniel Brock Jr. and wife, Margaret F. Brock, of Winston-Salem; her daughter, Alice Timoxena "Timi" Brock Most and her husband, Robert B. Most, of Menlo Park, Calif.; her son, F. Laurens "Larry" Brock, of Signal Mountain, Tenn.; 10 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1, at Maple Springs United Methodist Church, 2569 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem. The service will be in the Cokesbury Room adjacent to Craven Hall. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 at Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala. The family will receive visitors after each service. Salem Funeral Home of Winston-Salem will be handling arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Isabel Elias and Virgil Laurens Jones Scholarship Fund; Attention: Director of Constituent Relations, 405 Administration Building, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

Published July 29, 2014

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