Former telephone operator Alice Berniece McClain Vanderslice of Shawnee died Thursday in a local hospital. She was 82.

Mrs. Vanderslice was born March 6, 1915, in Paden, the daughter of Wesley Baxter and Lucinda Jane Nicks McClain. A graduate of Paden Schools, she also attended a business college in Sapulpa.

She married R. L. Vanderslice on December 11, 1943, in Shawnee. She had lived here for more than fifty years.

Mrs. Vanderslice was a Southwestern Bell telephone operator for 32 years.

She was a member of Central Church of Christ and a life member of Telephone Pioneers of America.

Surviving are her husband, R. L. Vanderslice, of the home; son and daughter-in-law, Robert L. and Cynthia Vanderslice, Lenexa, Kansas; grandchildren, Richard Vanderslice, Michael Vanderslice and Christen Vanderslice, all of Lenexa; and sister, Lois Boardman of Del City.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters, two brothers, and an infant son, Richard W. Vanderslice.

Services will be 3:30 p.m. today at Central Church of Christ with Dwyane Dennis officiating.

Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park under the direction of Roesch-Walker Funeral Chapel.

Memorials may be made to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73104.