Alice Cameron Reaves, 88, of Newton, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 at Palliative CareCenter and Hospice of Catawba Valley.

A private memorial service will be held at a later date.

Born Nov. 16, 1923 in Hamlet, she was the daughter of the late Albert Alston Reaves and Favette Dolene Jones. Alice was a graduate of Flora MacDonald College in Red Springs, and School of Library Science, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She was a retired assistant librarian with the North Carolina Supreme Court Library in Raleigh. Reaves was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Hickory.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Dr. Henry L. Reaves and a sister, Mary Ellen Reaves.

Survivors include a sister-in-law, Marjorie Reaves; nieces and nephews, Deborah and her husband, Dr. Dale Spencer, of Taylorsville, Dr. Ray Reaves and wife, Peggy, of Newton, and Melonie Humphries and husband, Bryan, of Staunton, VA; seven great nieces and nephews; and three great-great nieces and nephews.

Condolences may be sent to the Reaves family at www.drumfuneralhome.com.

The Reaves family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Drum Funeral Home & Cremations in Conover, NC