Alice Haley Howard

Ms. Alice Haley Howard was born December 18, 1974, in East St. Louis, Illinois, to her parents, the late Mr. Robert Clarence Haley and Mrs. Phyllis Annetta Roberts Haley. Alice spent most of her childhood in the Waynesboro area with her family, attending and graduating school from Wayne County High in 1992. In her teenage and young adult years, she worked in the restaurant industry as a hostess for several different restaurant chains in different locations. Being a social person, she enjoyed meeting and serving the people she encountered throughout her career. However, she cherished no other moments in life more than the times she spent with her family. Some of her most cherished moments were traveling with her daughter Autumn, attending dance competitions, watching her daughter compete. In her leisure time, she spent many hours studying the genealogy of her family, learning of her ancestral roots. She was a spiritually minded woman, as she was a member of the United Methodist Church in Waynesboro, TN. Those who knew her will remember her as a hard-working, devoted friend, mother, and grandmother. Ms. Alice Haley Howard passed from this life to her heavenly home on November 5, 2025, in Waynesboro, making her stay on this earth some 50 years and 10 months.

Those left to honor her memory include her daughter, Autumn Leanne Howard (boyfriend Nicolas) of Savannah, GA; brothers, Terry Haley (partner Darlene) and Robert Haley (wife Sherry); sisters, Judith Kay Nutt, Sherry Curtis, and Belinda Jo Berry (husband Warren), all of Waynesboro, TN; unborn grandson, Weston.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Reverend David Clarence Haley and Elsie Dean Pope Haley; maternal grandparents, Earl Roberts and Ruby Roberts.

Funeral services were held Sunday, November 9, 2025, at 2:00 pm at Bates-Love Funeral and Cremation, LLC in Waynesboro with Greg Eaton officiating. Burial followed in the North Highland Cemetery in Waynesboro.

Visitation with the family was on Sunday, November 9, 2025, from 10:00 am till 1:30 pm at Bates-Love Funeral and Cremation, LLC in Waynesboro, TN.

Those honored to serve as pallbearers included David Haley, Terry Haley, Nicolas Silva-Brown, Tyler Russell, Kholby Daniels, and Jayden Creasy.

Bates-Love Funeral and Cremation, LLC is honored to serve the family.