Mrs. Alison Marie Webster

Alison Marie Conrad Webster
April 29, 1922 – September 7, 2011

Alison Marie Conrad Webster, 89, devoted Navy wife, loving mother, and long-time resident of Annapolis, passed away at Sunrise Assisted Living in Columbia, MD on September 7, 2011. Born in her home on Spa Creek in Annapolis on April 29, 1922 to the late Naval Academy Professor William A. and Carrie May Conrad, she grew up on Spa Creek and later attended the University of Maryland for two years before serving as a secretary in the office of the Superintendent of the Naval Academy during World War II. She married the late Rear Admiral David A. Webster of Fresno, CA (USNA Class of 1944) in October 1944 while her husband's ship was undergoing repairs from battle damage suffered during the Battle of Peleliu. For the next 31 years of Admiral Webster's career, she was the consummate naval officer's wife, managing family affairs during her husband's many sea deployments and creating "home" for her husband and three sons in nearly two dozen locations in which the family lived. In 1975, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Webster retired to her childhood home on Spa Creek in Annapolis, where she lived most of the last 36 years of her life. During retirement, she and her husband enjoyed travelling the United States and she engaged in several hobbies, including family genealogy, photography, painting and astronomy, the latter a legacy from her father who had been an astronomer at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC from 1917 – 1919. Rear Admiral and Mrs. Webster were married for 54 years.
She is survived by three sons, William Conrad Webster of Sunol, CA, Larry David Webster of Dublin, CA, and Bruce Lee Webster of Columbia, MD; 10 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, David Andre Webster (1999); a brother, Robert William Conrad (1990); a sister Jean Louise Conrad Woelfel (2001) and two grandchildren, William David Webster (1976) and Sarah Webster (1977).
Visitation will be from 10 AM to 11 AM on Tuesday, September 13 at the family home at 121 Spa View Avenue in Annapolis. A private service for family and neighbors will follow at 11 AM. Interment will take place at the United States Naval Academy following the service.