She graduated from
State Normal School, and from the
University of Washington in 1910 with A.B. and in 1914 with M.A., and
Cornell University in 1920 with M.S. and in 1926 with Ph.D. thesis "A Plant Survey of Hancock Co., Illinois". When Carthage College relocated in 1964, Kibbe returned to her native state of
Washington, dedicating much of her local property to public use. Her donation of a wooded tract on the
Mississippi River near
Warsaw, Illinois formed the core of the
Alice L. Kibbe Life Science Research Station, operated by
Western Illinois University. Kibbe's extensive personal natural history collections are housed in the
Kibbe Hancock Heritage Museum in Carthage. ==References==