Alice Taylor Tam Storey

Alice Taylor Tam Storey, 86, of West Lafayette, Indiana, died Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at the Jewel Place in Madison, Indiana. She was born June 10, 1932, in Lafayette, Indiana, to Richard B. and Dorothy Klumpp Taylor. She was a 1950 graduate of West Lafayette High School. She attended DePauw University where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. She earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in education from Purdue University, where she also completed her sixth-year program.She was a committed educator and began her elementary teaching career in a parochial school in Lafayette, Indiana. She took a sabbatical to care for her children and returned to teaching in 1969 with the West Lafayette School Corporation. She taught fourth grade at Burtsfield Elementary School and later Happy Hollow Elementary School until her retirement in 1997. She loved her students, her fellow teachers, and her administrators, each and every year of her career. Following her retirement, she continued her education by attending the University of Cambridge International Summer School in 2001 and 2002. She also participated in church mission trips to foreign countries where she volunteered to teach the children.

She was active in civic organizations and was a member of the Delta Eta chapter of Tri-Kappa philanthropic sorority. It was during Kappa Kapers, a fundraising musical event, that she met her first husband, Robert J. (Bob) Tam, who was a tenor soloist and Hall of Fame member of the Purdue Varsity Glee Club. She and Bob were married on June 28, 1958, and they had one son and one daughter. She was also a world traveler. She visited many foreign countries and several places in the United States. It was during one of her trips to the Lake District in England that she met her second husband, Malcolm Storey, a proprietor of a bed and breakfast in Cumbria. She and Malcolm were married on December 24, 1993, and enjoyed many exciting adventures together both at home and abroad.

She volunteered at the West Lafayette Public Library and Habitat for Humanity for many years. She was a member of the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumni Group, and the Lafayette Tennis Club. She enjoyed attending performances by the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, the Bach Chorale Singers, the Lafayette Chamber Singers, and the Purdue Varsity Glee Club. She loved to play tennis, read, travel, and spend time with her grandchildren. She is survived by one son, Brian Tam and his wife, Kelly, of Suwanee, Georgia; one daughter, Alison Frazier of Dupont; one sister, Anne Howard of Manitowoc, Wisconsin; one brother, Stephen B. Taylor of Metter, Georgia; the father of her grandsons, Jeff Frazier of Madison; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Robert Tam, who died on December 26, 1972; her second husband, Malcolm Storey, who died on March 28, 1999; and her parents. There will be a celebration of life on Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at Soller-Baker Funeral Home, 1184 Sagamore Parkway West, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906. Interment will follow in Tippecanoe Memorial Gardens in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Friends may call on Tuesday at the Soller-Baker Funeral Home in West Lafayette from 11:00 a.m. until the time of service. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to the West Lafayette Public Library, the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, the West Lafayette Schools Education Foundation, or a charity of the donor's choice.

Arrangements for Mrs. Story are being made through Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive Madison, Indiana 47250. Online condolences can be made by visiting www.morgan-nay.com.