Alice Teresa Cremins was born to Daniel V. Cremins, Sr. and Alice (Downing) Cremins onAugust 3, 1941, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She died on July 3, 2024, in Sulphur. Alice graduated from Mount St. Joseph Academy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1959. She began her 60-year nursing career after graduating in 1962 from St. Elizabeth’s School of Nursing in Brighton, Massachusetts. Later, she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and a Master’s Degree in Health Care Administration. She was also a Eucharistic Minister at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, serving in several leadership capacities.
Alice’s vast nursing career centered on the epitome of quality patient care. After excelling in numerous nursing supervisory positions in Massachusetts, she continued her career in Oklahoma. Her unwavering, professional attitude in patient care was instilled in the hundreds of nursing students she taught at Southern Tech in the 1980s in Ardmore, where, for many years, 100% of her students passed their state nursing boards. In addition to teaching, Alice was a director of nurses at several nursing homes and a state and federal compliance consultant for hospitals and nursing homes. Many nurses lauded Alice as a “nurse’s nurse” who “demanded the best from everyone around her.” Alice’s final nursing rotation was at Callaway Nursing Home, where she eventually became a resident, receiving the utmost quality patient care from those whom she once guided in their health vocations.
Alice was a fiercely loyal friend, a proud Irish daughter, sister, mother, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was a true Bostonian who loved her Red Sox and hated the New York Yankees. She was smart, funny, witty, quick, and bossy. Alice had an array of knowledge in any field, which made her a Jeopardy whiz. She was extremely proud to be a cradle Catholic who understood the Catholic mass in Latin. In her later years, Alice relished the time she spent with her sisters in Naples, Florida. When she and her sisters were together, “The Auntourage” was in full swing with laughter and the regaling of family stories for the next generations.
Alice is survived by her daughters, Patricia Roberts of Ardmore, and Alissa Dunn of Sulphur; sisters, Ann Powell of Arlington, Massachusetts, Arlene Donnelly and her husband Paul of York, Maine, and Andrea Finger and her husband Joe of Orlando, Florida; grandchildren, Meredith Comley and her husband Scott of Dallas, Texas; Kennedy Roller and her fiancé Matt of Davis; Jadyn Zanazanian of Stillwater; and Ryan Dunn of Edmond. She also leaves behind a great-grandson, her former husband Charles Fowler of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews, and many special friends.
Alice was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Daniel V. Cremins, Jr.; her son, Brian Zanazanian; and her former husband Nerses Zanazanian.
A funeral mass will be offered by Father Jarek Topolewski at St. Francis Xavier Church in Sulphur, on Tuesday,Aug. 13, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., followed by a burial ceremony at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
