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My mother, Alice Heldenfels, has passed away. This is her obituary. Alice Davis Heldenfels is now in heaven, asking everyone if there’s anything she can do for them. Mrs. Heldenfels, 93, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 1, following a brief illness. She had most recently lived in Warwick Forest but resided most of her life on Crittenden Lane in Newport News. Born on May 16, 1926, in Crisp County, Georgia, the former Martha Alice Davis early on demonstrated a knack for mathematics and science, and the precision of those fields was something she applied to everything else in life. As a child of the Depression, she learned early on about the importance of hard work and careful living – along with the need to have fun. How else to explain the certificate that 13-year-old Alice received for completion of a course in Hawaiian guitar? She graduated from the former Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College & State University) in 1948 with a B.S. in mathematics and