On Sunday, June 9, 2013, Mrs. Alyce Williams Henderson turned 100 years old and joined the exclusive "club" of approximately 53,364 other centenarians in the United States. Five months later, on Tuesday, November 26, 2013, Mrs. Henderson passed away quietly in her sleep. As a centenarian, Mrs. Henderson enjoyed TEN DECADES OF LIVING WELL as a child growing up before and during the Depression, a college-trained educator, a wife, a mother, a 70-year member of the Talbot Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® (AKA) Diamond Soror with 81 years of uninterrupted service, and as a charter member of the local AKA chapter, Delta Iota Omega Chapter, with 67 years of uninterrupted service. 

The youngest of the six children of Lula Gertrude Lowe and Robert Williams, Alyce Williams Henderson was born Monday, June 9, 1913, in Pensacola, Florida. She attended the public schools of Escambia County when schools were assigned numbers instead of names. She attended what was then called School Number 56 as an elementary school student.

At age sixteen, Mrs. Henderson was one of 98 seniors to graduate from Booker T. Washington High School in 1929; her class was the largest of the then-segregated school. This second decade of Mrs. Henderson's life found her in college, first at Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama; and next at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. She was initiated in Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at Fisk in 1932.

She married Stephen Henderson, Sr. after the two of them graduated from college in 1933. Two children, Stephen Jr. and Kay, were born to this union.

For over forty years, Mrs. Henderson taught school in the Escambia County School District. As a member of the AKA Sorority, Mrs. Alyce Henderson became one of the seven charter members of Delta Iota Omega Chapter in 1946. 

Mrs. Henderson had numerous long-term affiliations including her church membership at Talbot Chapel AME Zion Church, Jack and Jill of America (another group of which she was a charter member), and the Colored Women's Federated Club. 

In 2010, Delta Iota Omega Chapter honored Mrs. Henderson by naming one of its academic scholarships the Alyce Henderson Diamond Scholarship, which is given annually to a high school senior who is one of the chapter's Debutantes and who meets the chapter's criteria of scholarship and volunteer service.

Mrs. Alyce Henderson is survived by her devoted son Stephen Henderson and his wife Shirley, her beloved daughter, Kay, of Richmond, California; seven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, two step-grandchildren and six step-great grandchildren. 

Services will be held 11am Saturday, December 7, 2013, at Talbot Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, 421 North Reus Street, with Reverend John L. Philpot, Sr, Pastor, officiating. Burial will follow at St. John's Cemetery, 301 N. G Sreet, Pensacola, Florida.