Mary Alice (Childers) Rinehardt of Chatham, MA, passed away peacefully July 10, 2009 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, MA after a brief illness. She was a resident of Bainbridge from 1953 until 1997. She had resided at the Victorian Assisted Living in Chatham for the last seven years. The wife of the late Haynes D. Rinehardt, sister of the late Winifred Pharr of Statesville, NC and the late Ray Childers of Landis, NC., she is survived by one daughter, Sue Lindblom and husband, David, of Brewster, MA, grandaughter, Alison Swallow and husband, David, of Winchester, MA, great-granddaughter Claire Swallow, and two nieces and a nephew of NC. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Bainbridge. Services will be private. Gifts in her memory may be made to VNA of Cape Cod, Palliative Care and Hospice Fund, P.O. Box 390, Hyannis, MA 02601.