Alice Round Obituary

Alice Faye Round

Jul 19, 1934 - Apr 27, 2024

Huron

Alice Faye Round, 89 of Huron, passed away peacefully in her sleep Friday, April 27, 2024.

Faye was born in Ironton, to Wade and Martha Bruce. She attended London High School, London, Ohio, received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, in 1956, and her Master of Science in School Psychology from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1975.

Faye enjoyed a wonderfully long career in education. She began teaching in Ohio, then California and back to Ohio. In her early years she taught students in elementary schools and was a substitute teacher in the evenings, having a chance to teach her boys in Cincinnati while attending Miami University.

Once she completed school in Oxford, the family left Cincinnati and she started her first school psychologist position in the Fulton County school system in Wauseon. A year later, the family left for Sandusky, with a prominent role as School Psychologist for the Sandusky City Schools, which also included responsibilities in the area's private school system. She also assisted in the Huron County Board of Education, Norwalk, and enjoyed mentoring students and giving private art lessons in the area.

Faye enjoyed painting and writing children's books. She enjoyed supporting the community as team mother with the boys baseball teams and held positions with the Huron Athletic Booster Club, Volunteers in Action, NAACP, National Education Association, National Association of School Psychologist, Ohio School Psychologists Association, Ohio Education Association, Sandusky Education Association, Phi Delta Kappa Historian receiving the Most Innovative Preservation of History Award in 1988.

Faye loved her family, neighbors in Chaska Beach and could be found attending her son Chris' sporting events and many of her son Lenny's band gigs throughout northern Ohio. The house in Chaska was always open to the kids.

Faye is survived by her loving sister, Avanelle Oberlin, Marysville, a son Chris Round; Linda, and her grandchildren Jacob Round, Kiely Round and Joseph Round, Cincinnati, and Thomas Michael Russell Round and Leonard (Anthony) Round.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Donna (Fugate) Bruce, her son, Lenny Round, and her grandson, Jordan Round.

Friends and family are invited to visit at 11 a.m. Friday, May 3, at Foster Funeral Home & Crematory, 410 Main Street, Huron, Ohio 44839, with a brief service at 11:30 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Huron Athletic Booster Club/H Team, Mailing address, Coach Hohler 710 Cleveland Rd. West, Huron, Ohio 44839.

Foster Funeral Home & Crematory, Huron, is assisting the family. Online condolences may be shared at www.fosterfh.com.