Alice (Frum) Dibble

Alice “Allie” Frum Dibble of Cambridge, Massachusetts, died peacefully on August 28, 2025, in hospice at age 94 after complications associated with old age.

Allie was born on March 25, 1931, in Cleveland to Virginia Pendleton Frum and Paul Wood Frum. She attended the Laurel School in Cleveland, followed by Smith College, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1953. After college, Allie taught nursery school in Cleveland, where she met her future husband, John D. Dibble. Life took Allie and John to Newburgh, New York, in 1959. In 1968, they moved to Watertown, Connecticut, and then to Middlebury, Connecticut, in 1985. After John’s passing in 2009, Allie moved to Southbury, Connecticut, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2022 to be closer to her sons.

Her varied vocations included teaching nursery school, interviewing for several decennial Federal censuses, and decades of hospice volunteering. Other volunteering included the Junior League, the Mattatuck Museum, Planned Parenthood, and the Western Connecticut Smith Club.

She was fond of many family dogs (Pal, Sybil, Suzy, and Louis) and enjoyed cycling, cross-country skiing, gardening, both vegetables and flowers, as well as knitting and needlepointing. Allie loved sharing her handiwork with loved ones, knitting many sweaters, baby blankets, and mittens for friends and family. She also enjoyed many travels to continental Europe, the UK, and the American West. Allie cherished the multigenerational tradition of vacationing at the family’s off-the-grid camp on Cache Lake in Algonquin Park, Ontario. She would first travel there by train from her childhood home in Cleveland, arriving at the lake’s landing. She passed on her love for the lake and family time to her sons and, later, to her granddaughters.

Allie’s idea of a perfect day would include a morning of ladies’ doubles tennis with friends, a homemade lunch including lettuce and tomatoes from her garden, an afternoon lake swim with the family dog, and a family dinner on the patio followed by a peppermint stick ice cream cone.

Allie was a voracious reader with an uncanny memory for people (birthdates) and history. As a long-term member of the Highfield Club in Middlebury, Connecticut, she enjoyed tennis and paddle tennis with friends and family there for years.

Allie is survived by her beloved sons, Mark P. Dibble (partner, Elise) and Warren G. Dibble (wife, Ali). After raising two boys, she was thrilled to love and enjoy her four wonderfully spirited granddaughters: Caroline, Anna, Eleanor, and Evy. She was predeceased by her dear husband of 50 years, John D. Dibble, and her friend, Alan “Whitey” Frew, who gifted her a “second bite of the apple”.

A Celebration of Life service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 4th, 2025, at the Bigelow Chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 850 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a reception to follow at the chapel.

In place of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
 Flanders Nature Center, Woodbury, CT https://flandersnaturecenter.org/
 Hospice House, Lincoln, MA www.CareDimensions.org/giving

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