Lynne Price Schneider

She’s survived by her husband Woody, daughter Lissa and grandson Michael Rebozo, son Jeff and daughter-in-law Lynn and grandkids Racheal Brusca (and Steven), Clint Shapley, Tiffany Khan (and Raheel) and Katelyn Gray (and Chris) and great grandkids Lyla and Georgia Gray, as well as many nieces and nephews. Lynne was predeceased by her son Russ, brother Dave and sister Ann.

Lynne was born in Hillsdale, MI on July 13, 1932, the daughter of Clay & Blanche Price. The family moved several times in the region before ending up in Royal Oak where she graduated high school. She attended Northwestern University in the Chicago suburb of Evanston where she met her husband-to-be, Woody in 1952 during her sophomore year.

After graduation, Woody was drafted into the army and was enroute via troop ship to the Korean War when his unit was ordered to disembark in Japan, where he was stationed during the war. Woody proposed to Lynne from Japan, and she flew on her own to marry him there. They ultimately had three wedding ceremonies. Two for legal purposes at the American Embassy and Japanese Ward Office in Tokyo, followed by a traditional ceremony the next day in the American Chapel Center in Tokyo.

Lynne and Woody quickly began a family having Russ, Jeff and Lissa. By then Lynne was off to an exciting life that would take her and Woody around the world. They lived in Kalamazoo MI, Glendale AZ, Summit NJ, the Bahamian capital of Nassau, San Juan Puerto Rico, the Manhattan suburb of New Providence NJ, Barrington IL in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, downtown Chicago, Paris France, mid-town Manhattan, Coral Gables, FL and finally Naples, FL. Throughout, Lynne spent summers with the kids at Little Point Sable in Michigan where Woody’s parents and other family members had seasonal cottages, and ultimately Lynne and Woody built one of their own.

In an extraordinary coincidence, Lynne and Woody’s lives were featured in two different scenes of the 1965 James Bond film, Thunderball. The movie opens on the Avenue d’Eylau in Paris, looking toward the Eiffel Tower. This was the street they lived on, and the scene was filmed from in front of their apartment building (12 years before they moved there). Later, as the story shifted to the Bahamas, Lynne and Woody were extras in the Junkanoo parade scene (think Bahamian Mardi Gras) filmed in Nassau. This perfectly captured the international aspect of their lives.

They loved travel and visited scores of countries on every continent except Antarctica. Lynne’s two favorite destinations were the Dalmatian Coast of the Adriatic Sea, and the ruins of Machu-Picchu, Peru, though Paris was her favorite place to live. She said it was “intimidating and exhilarating all at once experiencing a new culture”. This was never more true than when she was in charge of organizing speakers for the American Women’s Club in Paris, and spent time with Princess Grace of Monaco, the wife of French President Georges Pompidou and Baron Elie de Rothschild of French banking and wine making fame.

Lynne was an avid tennis player, golfer, skier, bridge player, knitter & seamstress. Later in life Lynne took up quilting, and not just any quilts, but elaborate, complex beautiful patterns. Perhaps her biggest legacy is the dozens of quilts she’s made for friends and family, especially for grandkids and great grandkids, that literally reside coast-to-coast today, from Hoboken, NJ to Coral Gables, FL to Scottsdale, AZ and everywhere in between.

Little Point Sable, MI was the emotional center of Lynne’s life. It was there that she met many of her closest friends. And where the family returned each year no matter where around the world they were spread. And where she experienced her most cherished memories, and it will be there that her ashes will be laid to rest.

For those desiring, please consider memorial contributions in Lynne’s name to Community Foundation for Oceana County (CFOC), LPS Arts Fund, P.O. Box 902, Pentwater, MI 49449, or by using the link https://oceanafoundation.org/give/give-now/ and selecting the Little Point Sable – Arts for Oceana County Fund.