Phillip Alve's home at 52 Raroa Road, Kelburn, Wellington was sold by his estate on 8th February, 2012. This sale ends a long association by the Alve family with this turn of the (20th) Century villa.

This house had been home for Phil since the early 1950's. After living there as a boarder initially, Phil bought the house either in the late 1950's or early 1960's. He initially continued using the home as a boarding house. Later he lived there alone and spent most of his retirement there. It was an ideal repository for his very large collections of books, records, papers and other bric a brac.

At some stage he also purchased the neighbouring property at 54 Raroa Road, which has been tenanted and remains so, owned by Phil's estate. This property is currently on the market also.

Shortly after he turned 90 in December 2008 Phil moved to live at the family home in Longburn, Manawatu before spending his last days in the Aroha Rest Home in Palmerston North. He died on 20th July 2012 aged 93.

52 Raroa Road has been purchased by John Waterson of Kelburn and others who are already rennovating it.

With the deaths during 2012 of Phillip Alve (July 20) , Noeline King (July 4) and Marion Karipa (October 12), five of Carl and Maria Theresia Alve's thirty six grandchildren are living. We extend our condolences to the close family of these three esteemed relatives who have lived long and fruitful lives before their passing this year. And we prayerfully wish surviving grandchildren and their families health and happiness.

Those grandchildren living are:

• Thelma Avery (98) - Palmerston North
  
• Ivan Alve (81) - Palmerston North
  
• Hilton Alve (86) - Taupo 
  
• Billy Alve (57) - Manawatu
  
• Alve Purdom (87) - Ashhurst
  

We look forward with Thelma and her family to the celebration of her 99th birthday on the 20th January next. 

The Alve grandchildren were born from 1900 (Bill Busch) to 1955 (William Alve). 

With the launch of this website and news blog, it may be that you would like to provide information about descendants (or ancestors) of Carl and Maria Theresia. The kind of information we think will be relevant to the wider family includes: 

• news of births, marriages and deaths
  
• obituaries
  
• awards and achievements
  
• requests for family information
  
• notes of historical or genealogical interest
  
• etc. 
  

Written and photographic information is welcomed. When you provide information please ensure that you give us permission (electronic message is ok) to publish, if it is yours to give. Otherwise please indicate who "owns" the material so we may contact them. If your information is on the web please indicate where - again we will require your permission to copy it to this website. You may prefer that we just provide a web link to your material.

Finally, while Google will do its best to let relatives and others know that this website exists, we are somewhat dependent on word of mouth (so to speak). If you have a website or Facebook or Twitter accounts appropriate links are valued by us. In return we are open to linking to you.

Let's do what we can to keep in touch with one another.

Terry Alve