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[[File:Natalie's skaters 002.jpg|right|thumb||An ice show at the Curling Club, c. 1940. Left to right: ]][[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Phyllis_Krinovitz|Phyllis Krinovitz]]| (Feinberg), [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Natalie_Bombard|Natalie Bombard]]| (Leduc), [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Pat_Smith|Pat Smith]]|, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Ruth_Lamy|Ruth Lamy]]| (Gendron), [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Bernadette_Harrigan|Bernadette Harrigan]]|, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Helen_Rankin|Helen Rankin]]|, '''|Alice Walsh Kennedy'''|, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/John_Walsh|John Walsh]]|, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Phyllis_Horton|Phyllis Horton]]|, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Bob_Walsh|Bob Walsh]]|, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Jewel_Smith|Jewel Smith]]|, [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Phyllis_McKillip|Phyllis McKillip]]|.<br>|Courtesy of [[https://localwiki.org/hsl/Natalie_Leduc|Natalie Leduc]]]]'''Born:''' c. 1924, in Saranac Lake

'''Died:''' July 11, 2013, in Dublin, Pennsylvania

'''Married:''' John M. Kennedy, an executive with the ''New York Times''

'''Children:''' Kevin Kennedy

'''Alice Walsh Kennedy''' was a native of Saranac Lake who became a professional figure skater and toured with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Henie|Sonja Henie]]’s “Holiday on Ice” reviews. She was the only daughter of the late [[Imogene%20Russell%20Walsh|Imogene Russell Walsh]] and [[John%20H.%20Walsh|John H. Walsh]], a family that included her three brothers, [[Robert%20Walsh|Robert Walsh]], [[Gene%20Walsh|Gene Walsh]] and the late [[John%20R.%20Walsh|John R. Walsh]]. The family lived at [[32%20Virginia%20Street|32 Virginia Street]]. Alice attended Saranac Lake schools, graduating from [[Saranac%20Lake%20High%20School|Saranac Lake High School]] in 1943, and St. Lawrence University in 1948.

Alice and her brother, [[John%20R.%20Walsh|John R. Walsh]], also a professional figure skater, produced and starred in Saranac Lake’s annual Winter Ice Festivals in the 1940s in the [[Curling%20Club|Curling Club]].

Her obituary, from which the above information was taken, appeared in the ''Adirondack Daily Enterprise ''on July 18, 2013.

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