on June 13, 2018.
She was born September 26, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, during one of the
most powerful hurricanes in U.S. history, to Stanley Johnston Lonsdale and Martha
Clark Lonsdale. After receiving her A.B. in mathematics from Middlebury
College, Vermont, and her A.M. in linguistics from the University of Michigan,
she moved to Atlanta in 1962. She did research for various departments at Georgia
Tech before marrying William Arthur Schaffer in the courthouse at Monticello,
Georgia, on December 31, 1969.
She has lived in Atlanta for fifty-six years, working in various editorial capacities
while volunteering in libraries, archives, and sports organizations. She served the
U.S. Figure Skating Association as a judge and committee member (recently
receiving an award for her fiftieth year of service), and acted as secretary of the
boards of directors for both U.S. Figure Skating Championships held in Atlanta, in
1980 and 2004. She was a member of North Avenue Presbyterian Church, the
Atlanta and Georgia Figure Skating Clubs, the Junior League of Atlanta, the
Atlanta World War II Round Table, the Vinings Village Women’s Club, and the
Georgia Tech Faculty Women’s Club, among others, while also volunteering at the
American Red Cross, the Atlanta Historical Society, and the Westminster Schools
libraries.
Lee loved her family, music and books, flowers and birds, Georgia Tech athletics,
miniature Schnauzers, college students, playing the organ, baseball, sketching, and
the sea.
Mrs. Schaffer is survived by her husband, William A. Schaffer; her son Samuel
Lonsdale Schaffer, his wife, Dana Lanier Schaffer, and granddaughter Ernestine
Clark Schaffer, of Washington, DC; her son Edward Clark Schaffer, his wife,
Karleen Diane Schaffer, of Easthampton, MA; and cousins William B. Rogers, of
New Market, VA, and Nathaniel C. Stoddard, of Eagle, CO. If desired,
contributions may be made to the American Red Cross, or the U.S. Figure Skating
Association Memorial Fund, in memory of Stanlee L. Schaffer.
A service will be held on June 30, at 2:00 pm, at H. M. Patterson & Son, Spring Hill, 1020
Spring St, NW, Atlanta, Georgia, 30309.
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