Alice (Isaacscon) Clark

Alice (Isaacson) Clark, 98 formerly of Grand Island died Sunday, February 21, 2016. Celebration of life service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19th in Gollaher Chapel of Trinity United Methodist Church. Burial of her ashes will be in the Grand Island Cemetery. All Faiths Funeral Home is serving the family. Mrs. Clark was born Aug. 5, 1917, to A. Emil and Mae R. (Johnson) Isaacson on the family farm east of Scandia, KS. At age eight she moved with her family to Scandia and received her education there, graduating from high school in 1935. While still in high school, Alice worked at the Scandia Journal where she was employed until she moved to Beatrice, NE., where she worked for Pease Grain and Seed Co. She married Ralph A. Clark at Beatrice, NE., on Dec. 24 1937. They began their married life in Augusta, KS, and later lived in Larned, KS, Columbus, NE. and Falls City, NE. before moving to Grand Island in 1943 when Ralph began working at the Grand Island Daily Independent. They had one daughter, Judith Maye. Alice was an active member of Trinity United Methodist Church. She taught Sunday school, served as circle chairman numerous times and was president of the Women’s Society of Christian Service (now United Methodist Women). She also served as district secretary for the regional organization. For many years, she served the church as financial secretary and membership secretary as well as heading a committee that provided meals for bereaved families on the day of the funeral. She was a member of a Christ Care Group. Alice was also active in the community, serving as a Girl Scout leader with responsibility for recruiting leaders in the Wasmer School district. She was secretary of the Girl Scout Board during the time that the first regional Girl Scout Council, Cross Counties Council, was being formed. She led the same troop from Brownies through senior scouting. In 1957, with the help of their families, troop members started earning money to visit the Girl Scout Chalet in Adelboden, Switzerland. Their main project was selling popcorn downtown on Third Street on Wednesday nights and Saturdays. They realized their goal the summer of 1959 when, with Alice and her husband as sponsors, eight girls left for a two month tour of Europe that included a visit to the Girl Scout Chalet. Alice also delivered Meals on Wheels, served on the Community Development and Urban Renewal Advisory Board and the board of the Hall County Historical Society, as a docent at Stuhr Museum, a mentor at Howard School, a volunteer at the Third City Community Clinic, and President and Treasurer of the League of Women Voters. She enjoyed bridge, reading, crossword puzzles, sewing, counted cross stitch, and quilting. Alice and her husband traveled extensively and had visited all of the 48 continental states as well as a number of foreign countries. She celebrated her 80th birthday along with her daughter and granddaughters touring the areas in Sweden from which all four of her grandparents immigrated to America. She is survived by her daughter, Dr. Judith Schaneman of Fulton, MO.; two granddaughters, Deirdre Schaneman of St. Louis, MO. and Emily Schaneman of St. Charles, MO.; two nieces, Sandra (Mark) Sells Corica of Powell, OH. and Christina (Bill) Perrin Moorcroft of Ft. Collins, CO.; three nephews, Alan (Sally) Popiel of Denver, CO, David (Georgia) Staver of Amarillo, TX, and Charles (Kathleen) Isaacson, Shawnee, KS, who made his home with them for a year, and numerous great-nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph, her parents, two sisters and a brother as well as two brothers who died in infancy and her son-in-law, William Schaneman. Memorials are suggested either to Trinity United Methodist Church or Stuhr Museum.

Alice (Isaacscon) Clark

August 5, 1917 - February 21, 2016

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