Alice Duncan Montague Lamond of Reston and Deltaville died in Reston on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024.
She was born on Sept. 8, 1929, in Richmond to James and Laura Sharp. Her father died when she was 7 years old.
She attended Casements Junior College in Ormond Beach, Fla. She married Hill Montague III in 1949, and they moved to Alexandria in 1951, where he began his career as an electrical engineer for the Naval Research Laboratory. They and their four children remained in Alexandria until l967, when they moved to Reston, where she lived part-time until her death.
Known to many as Duncan, she, as were many women of her generation, was a homemaker. However, she tried various jobs. In the l960s, she and her friend Bettie Davis wrote a social column for the Alexandria Gazette. Always interested in real estate investment, she worked briefly as a real estate agent. She even rented out rooms in her home. She sold Doncaster clothing, needlepoint kits, and Hill’s homemade ties with her friend Connie Cross. Her hobbies included playing bridge, backgammon, tennis and golf, painting, fishing and hypnotizing people.
Her greatest legacy, however, was her love of friends and family. She made friends wherever she lived or traveled and treated them like family. As her own four children grew up and were leaving home, she took in foster children. She was perfectly comfortable with the chaos of having her 11 grandchildren and their parents spend the entire summer together under one roof at her cottage in Deltaville.
Never wanting to be alone, she felt everyone needed to have a mate. She was obsessed with matchmaking, though she only had limited success. Her matchmaking was put to the test after three husbands left her widowed.
She was predeceased by her son Hill IV, son-in-law J. Jefferson Cross III, and three husbands, Hill Montague III, Carroll C. Curtice, and Richmond H. Curtiss Jr.
She is survived by husband, Lewis F. Lamond; three daughters, Laura Cross, Katharine Smeallie (Peter), and Caroline Boone (Walter); daughter-in-law Lisa Montague; 11 grandchildren, Fred, Katie, Laura, Caroline, Ellie, Peter, Emily, Liz, Sam, Rebecca and Hill; and 13 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service is planned for 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Alexandria. A graveside service will be conducted on a later date at Ware Episcopal Church in Gloucester. Donations can be made in her name to the Middlesex County Volunteer Rescue Squad, Deltaville.
