A Mass of Christian Burial for Alice DeWitt (nee Koprowski) a Sagamore Hills resident for more than 30 years, will be said at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 27 at the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, 3649 E. 65th St., Cleveland. Mrs. DeWitt died Dec. 22 at Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights. She was 88.

For Mrs. DeWitt World War II military service was not just a homefront hospital assignment. It included service in Bizerte, Africa; Marseilles, France, and Palermo, Sicily.

Mrs. DeWitt achieved the rank of first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurses Corps. Upon leaving the military, she continued her career in service. After earning a bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University, she earned a master's degree in education from John Carroll University and went on to serve as director of the St. Alexis Hospital School of Nursing. She retired when the school closed its doors.

Mrs. DeWitt did her military training at Camp Atterbury, Ind. before embarking for Toulons, France, on the USS Santa Paula. "The Toulon harbor was filled with sunken crafts of all sorts, so we had to go over the side to get off," she told a reporter in 1991. "At Bizerte, where we worked with the Navy as a burn unit, our station hospital came under fire. German bombers came over during the invasion of Sicily. I could see the bombs falling. We all headed to the trenches when it began. One of our tents was hit by shrapnel. You have a second nature at times like that: you freeze, not even thinking about how you could have been hurt until after it's over. When it finally was over, everybody headed for the latrines."

Mrs. DeWitt was the wife of the late Dr. Paul DeWitt, dear sister of Helen Wisniewski and the late Clara Mikol and Alois, Clement, John, Edwin, Eugene and Anthony Koprowski, loving aunt, great aunt and great-great aunt. She was born in Cleveland, Dec. 23, 1919, the daughter of John and Mary Koprowski.

Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland. Arrangements by Johnson-Romito Funeral Home, Northfield Center.