Alice Garmer, a homemaker and former mortgage department secretary at a bank, died of kidney failure Tuesday at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The Riviera Beach resident was 63.

Born Alice Marie Smith in Baltimore and raised in Brooklyn Park, she attended Brooklyn Park High School and later earned a General Educational Development certificate. She also earned a legal secretary's diploma from Strayer's Business School.

She worked at the old First National Bank in the Bay Meadows section of Anne Arundel County.

She enjoyed duckpin bowling and followed Ravens football, Orioles baseball and NASCAR's Jeff Gordon.

A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Jane Frances de Chantal Roman Catholic Church, 8499 Virginia Ave. in Riviera Beach, where she was a member.

Survivors include her husband of 43 years, William Garmer; two sons, William J. Garmer Jr. of Cockeysville and Scott S. Garmer of Riviera Beach; three brothers, Wayne Smith of Paris, Tenn., Larry Smith of Catonsville and Mark Smith of Linthicum; two sisters, Jeanne Ducey of Olympia, Wash., and Connie Walton of Riviera Beach; and two grandchildren.