Alice Kane was born at her home on April 24, 1933 in Morgantown Kentucky. She is the youngest daughter of Georgia and Robert Bruce Kane. Her mother was also blind and says that the probable cause of her blindness could have been detached retina and suddenly contracted it when she was walking outside to go and see the snow. Alice was raised on a farm with her brothers Joseph, Gerald, her sister Katherine, her half-brother and 3 half-sisters. She was raised in a Baptist Christian home and was loved by her parents. Her mother stayed at home and made jam, her father was farmer. She recalls as a child that her father never hit her but, instead he would just say “Alice now” and she would immediately know she did something wrong. She says that if he ever would have looked as if he was going to hit her she would fall to the floor and cry. In elementary school Alice says that as a gift to the students for Christmas, the principal would take all the students to see a movie. In her summers, growing up Alice would also help her mother can fruit and vegetables, she would also go to bible school at her church in Morgantown with her best friend Alberta. She enjoyed going to church to listen to the music that was sung and played. At her farm in Morgantown there was no running water so in the summers she would have to go to the well every day to get water for her and her family. Her parents owned a radio and she enjoyed listening to country music. When she was 14 she met her first love Glen. They were in the same Sunday school class and were both interested in each other. Alice recalls their first date was sitting next to each other in church. As time went on they both wanted to do different things and thus ended the relationship. 
While Alice was growing up many different events occurred in the United States, since it had only been approximately 75 years since the abolishment of slavery. She recalls that in her home town “the blacks and whites stayed to themselves” she never saw anyone being rude to blacks and thinks that they preferred to keep to themselves. From her point of view they were respected and if they were ever disrespected she was most likely uninformed. Around the same time the United States had entered WWII and although Alice was young she had family who was involved. She had a brother who was stationed in the Aleutian Islands on Kodiak Island in Alaska when the Japanese invaded. After the war she had another brother stationed in Hawaii.
Education & Marriage
  Alice wanted to become a nurse since she was young because it was what appealed to her the most. She decided to attend Murray state college (now Murray State University) in 1951. She enjoyed college life and was a very studious. She says “I was very studious but I went to see the entertainers when they came.” In college was when she met her husband. He was stationed in Fort Knox and he came into town because he had a car and his friend wanted to see his girlfriend who Alice had a classes with. At the time Alice was in nursing training and was preparing to graduate. Alice says “It was not love at first sight but as time went on and we began to write letters to each other. Occasionally he would drive down from Fort Knox so they could be together.  While she was dating her husband she was also studying to become a nurse. She says that during this time was when she had her proudest moment as a nurse. She said that she noticed one of her patients had a lump in one of her breast. At this time in history she says “people wouldn’t tell people this kinda stuff, it wasn’t something you did”. When she told the doctor of this he told her he had never inspected her to that extent. From then on the doctor bragged on her and she was proud that she was able to help that lady before it was too late. Alice Kane met and married her husband in 1958. Alice and her Husband got married on Friday October 3, 1958 in her Church in Morgantown,Kentucky. Life as a Married Women
Alice was a military wife and was with her husband until he retired 21 years. She says that even though she was a military wife she wasn’t held back because being a military wife offered her the opportunity to nurse anywhere. She has lived in Panama, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and Massachusetts. When her and her husband first got married was when she moved to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. When she was twenty seven she became pregnant with her only child, Kathy Kane. During her pregnancy she contracted a Detached Retina. “A detached retina occurs when the retina is pulled away from its normal position in the back of the eye. The retina send casual images to the brain through the optic nerve.” Says Doctor Grant M. Comer, M.D., M.D., from the website by Kellogg Eye Center. Her daughter was born in Fort Knox on July 10th 1960
When she lived in Panama, although she was blind in one eye she still practiced nursing. She remembers the Panamanians to be kind people, many of them did not speak English there was always an interpreter around.  She says that the craziest thing she saw when she was there was when her husband and daughter and she were at the beach they saw a little boy who cut his leg. He had cut his leg while trying to cut up a turtle with a machete.  Her husband quickly took him to army men who were nearby and asked them to take him to the medic. Later they found out that the boy was around eight and cut his ankle. Also that the boy was alright and just needed to heal. While they were in Panama the assassination of John F. Kennedy occurred. Alice says that she doesn’t remember much except the fact that she felt very sad for Jackie kenned because of how she would feel if she lost her husband Rowen. After leaving panama her and her daughter moved to Massachusetts while her husband went to war in Vietnam.
Vietnam
While he was gone Alice recalls feeling constantly scared. She says “I was scared because I never knew when I was going to get a call from the government saying that Rowen was dead.”   She also recalls one time when her and her daughter where watching television and her daughter began crying because she saw a dead Vietnamese soldier on the television screen who she thought was her father Alice could not find a way to calm her daughter down. Alice says that she just kept telling her daughter “It is not your father” and tried her best to calm her down. She says that this was very shocking and if she would have known that this would have been on television she would not have let her daughter watch the news that day. In 1966 she lost her sight in her right and was completely blind. The last thing she remembers seeing is her husband coming through the door and then holding her hand next to her. She lost her sight at only 33 years old at Walter reed army Hospital in Washington D.C. The Struggle of Being Blind

During her first years of being fully blind she struggled with depression and learning how to live again. She said that she had to slow down her when she walked and that her family had to make sure that the chairs where pushed and that all cabinet doors where shut. Alice also had to try to cook as much as she could for her young daughter and her husband. It not only affected her, but her entire family. Her daughter said “one day when I was five I closed my eyes and began walking and feeling everything just to try and understand what my mother was going through. It was just crazy all the things my mother had to do” Her daughter also said that they always had to make sure there was nothing that could hurt her or trip her. Alice’s biggest problem was learning to be dependent, another struggle for her was learning to be patient not only with others but herself as well. Alice had 1 surgery on her left eye at Fort Knox and 4 on her right eye at Walter Reed Hospital and all of the operations were unsuccessful.
The Moon Landing
Three years after going blind on July 20 1969, Alice Kane was living in a trailer park and her friend took her outside and they looked up at the moon and her friend said “Alice now think there is men up there walking on the moon” and Alice imagined the moon big and bright and she says that she was in awe of the fact that men were walking on the moon and says it was around seven o’clock where she lived. Alice Now

Alice Kane spend most of her days reading books she receives from the Texas Talking book program who say “Providing free library service to Texans of all ages who are unable to read standard print material due to visual, physical, or reading disabilities-whether permanent or temporary.” She is a fan of Romance Novels and does not have a favorite book. Whenever the news comes on she loves to watch it and hear everything that is going on in the world. She now spend the afternoons with her daughter who stays with her since the passing of her husband 6 months ago. Her Daughter cooks for her and is her care taker. She does much on her own. She has a granddaughter and great grandson who live in Kentucky and visit her when they can.       Since she moved to corpus 33 years ago she was already blind when she moved here so she has never seen Corpus Christi or her house. When asked if she think she has lived she said “I think I have because I try to be cheerful and I have been places and do my best to no be depressed” 
Politics
She says she is a Republican but she says to the gays that” well I’m not gay but to each his own” she also says that she is for women having equal rights but she won’t vote for Hilary Clinton because she doesn’t see her fit. On 9/11 was a day when she cried and says she doesn’t cry often but felt very sad for all those people and believes that George W. Bush did the best he could when declaring war after 9/11. Her greatest hope is that the United States will not have to go to war in the Middle East against the extremist groups because she knows what it is like to have someone go to war and would not wish that on anyone else.

Feelings on Her Life
Alice says that her parents where the most influential people in her life because her mother and father both raised her and nurtured her into adult hood. She wants people to remember her for trying to do the right thing and ever giving up. She enjoys to smile and be happy. When asked what her superpower would be she said that she would be able to see again because she had been blind for 48 years and knows that things have changed. She says that her life is worse after blindness because although she is surrounded by people that love her, her life isn’t the same. Alice says that one thing she misses the most is driving her daughter around and if she would have been able to carry more children she would have had1 to 2 more. One thing that she wishes she could change about her life is too see. If she could see one thing she says “my daughter” and her daughter said “no mother don’t choose me choose the world” and Alice replied “well you are in the world and you are part of my world….and the doggy”. She also said “if I could see I would walk down the street and say hello to all my neighbors that I don’t know”.