Celebrating a Life of Compassion, Leadership, and Global Impact

With broken hearts, we share with you the passing of a beloved wife, mother, sister and aunt. On December 14, 2025 Alice Marie Levisay, 60, passed away in her home on Bainbridge Island, Washington due to cancer. She died peacefully, in the company of her devoted family. Born on July 14, 1965, in Berea, Ohio, Alice was the cherished daughter of Dale and Arline Levisay, by whom she is predeceased. She is survived by her husband of 33 years, Jan Willem Rosenboom, her daughter, Johanna (Hanna) Rosenboom, her son-in-law Dillon, and her loving brothers, Mark and Bill.

Raised in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, Alice excelled academically, graduating as Valedictorian from Franklin Regional High School. She continued her studies at Rice University, earning her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology. She was then awarded the prestigious Watson Fellowship, which she used to study traditional healthcare delivery systems in India, China, Egypt and Kenya. This experience was professionally as well as personally formative; she first met Jan Willem during her stay in Nairobi.

Following this fellowship, Alice began her early career in Sierra Leone, West-Africa working on Lassa Fever and AIDS education. Her life’s journey then took her to Johns Hopkins for a Master’s in Public Health followed by twenty years in Cambodia and Bangladesh working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and others, finding her calling in strengthening national health systems, aid effectiveness and women’s sexual and reproductive health. Alice, Jan Willem and Hanna landed on Bainbridge Island in 2010, where Alice first worked with PATH in Seattle, and later served on the Global Health Agencies and Funds strategy at the Gates Foundation in her final professional role.

Alice loved her life on the island, volunteering for the salmon monitoring program, singing in various choirs and developing a community of friends. The family home welcomed guests from around the world, sharing the beauty of the Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest. Alice’s remarkable journey touched communities across the globe—from Vanuatu, Lao PDR and Tonga, to India, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Bainbridge Island, among many others. Her legacy is defined by her intelligence, strength of character, unwavering willpower, and infectious laugh. Though her life was cut short by illness, the impact she made and the memories she created will be treasured by all who had the privilege to know her. Alice’s absence will be deeply felt, but her spirit will live on in the lives she changed and the love she shared.

Full obituary available at: https://www.cookfamilyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/alice-levisay