Alice Cynthia Stong Kountz was born June 22, 1916 in Kilbourne, Iowa to Martha Alice Tobias and Ernest Lee Stong. Martha Alice Tobias was born November 11, 1878 in Lick Creek, Van Buren, Iowa. Her husband Ernest Lee Stong was born February 2, 1878 in Kilbourne, Iowa. The Stongs worked as merchants for the ?Stong Bros? company in Kilbourne, Iowa. Ernest Stong died on December 1, 1933. Martha Stong lived to be 83; she died on May 9, 1961.

Alice Stong attended the University of Iowa (then the State University of Iowa) from 1933 to 1935, where she met her future husband Roy Rupert Kountz, a chemistry major from Fort Madison. The couple married on July 6, 1940. They lived in Iowa City until 1942 when they moved to California after Roy enlisted in the military. They had two children: Carol Lee, born in 1944, and Robert Roy, born in 1951. Alice Kountz became a journalist. Between 1971 and 1981 she wrote a column for the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where she and the Kountz family lived after World War II.

Roy Kountz was professor of civil and sanitary engineering at the Pennsylvania State University until his death in 1971. Alice Stong Kountz died at 78 in 1994.