ALICE WELLING SCHAFFER

She was born on July 19, 1940 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Raymond and Margaret Welling. Her family moved to Syracuse, New York when she was young and she attended SUNY Oswego, where she took art classes from Roy Lichtenstein, and graduated with a teaching degree in 1962. After college she married the love of her life, John Schaffer, who affectionately called her Alish. They moved their growing family to Ann Arbor, Michigan and eventually Alpena, Michigan before they retired in Florida and then for their final years in Savannah, Georgia.

She was an avid reader, a writer and an artist. She loved a good Rob Roy and a rare steak. She loved to laugh, especially at herself. She was always up for an adventure with her husband and family. She loved to sing, particularly show tunes and woke her children each morning to the song, “Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory”. She taught her children to understand that God is love and because of her unwavering love for God miracles happened.

She is survived by seven of her children, Mary (Chris Beckmann), Elizabeth, John, Matthew (Jaimie Marconi), Timothy (Robin Snyder), David, (Amber Scramlin), and Stephen, along with 15 grandchildren, Sophia (Patrick Carmody), Hannah, Erica, Faith, Elijah, Zoe (Brian Gorski), Simeon, Fiona, Johnny, Ciella, Haskel, Levi, Leif, Sam, and Alice; six great-grandchildren, and her sibling, Robert Welling (Carolyn).

She was preceded in death by her husband, John and her son Peter.

As Alice loved to tell her children and grandchildren: “You turned out real good”, mom.

A funeral mass will be scheduled at a later date. The family asks any remembrances be made in her memory to Unity Acres. (unityacres.org) 2290 County Rte. 2, PO Box 153, Orwell, New York, 13426. A guest book is available to sign at foxandweeks.com