Alice Lotzgesell Edgington is descended from the George Henry Lotzgesell family that settled in the Dungeness Valley in 1859. Alices’s father, LeRoy Lotzgesell, grew up on his father’s dairy farm. Her mother’s family came to the Sequim area from Minnesota in 1902. Alice was born to LeRoy and Agnes Lotzgesell in 1922. She has 3 sisters: Shirley, Winona and Trenna.
Alice has enjoyed reading since she was a child. Her Aunt Bessie worked for the library in Port Angeles and would bring her the old books as they were about to be discarded. As a child you could find her curled up in a corner reading.
Some of Alice’s fondest memories as a child are of the time she spent with her grandparents. Every day after school she would walk to her grandparents to visit and play cards. On weekends they would take her to the matinee in Port Angeles.
She married Walt Bucher in 1941. Walt and her sister, Shirley, were killed in a car accident in 1945. In 1946 she married Don Edgington. They have 3 children: Ralph, Marlene and Shirley, 5 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
After Alice and Don married they raised cows and alfalfa. Over the years they expanded the farm. When Don started working construction as an iron worker in the mid-1960’s, he sold the cows and they just raised hay. While Alice has never driven a car, she used to drive the tractor to cut the hay on the farm that she and Don owned. When the Dungeness Golf Course wanted to build the 2nd nine holes in 1970, she and Don sold 37 of their first 40 acres of the farm property. They built a new house and lived there until Don’s death in 1984. Alice moved into town in 1985 and enjoys the nice weather and her walks around town.