CHESTERTOWN. Alicia S. Busser passed away peacefully April 28, 2013.
Alicia was born Dec. 3, 1916, in Buenos Aires to American parents, Alice Wall Stewart and Charles Perkins Stewart. She grew up in Washington D.C. where she attended the Maret School, and received her B.A. degree in French at Bryn Mawr College. She married William Franklin Busser on January 1, 1937 and spent the next 17 years as a diplomat's wife, becoming a mother of five daughters; Sylvie, Katie (deceased), Carol, Julie and Anna. The family spent those years in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Vienna and London before coming back to Alicia's beloved Austria where she resumed music study and received a diploma in vocal pedagogy.
Alicia's family returned to the USA in 1961 where they settled in the New York City area. Her love of music, writing and Anthroposophy were incorporated into her new career of school teaching, which she pursued on and off, interspersed with years spent in Central and South America and the Philippines while Bill was a director with the International Executive Service Corps (IESC). Upon his retirement she taught in San Francisco and Albuquerque Waldorf Schools.
Alicia settled with Bill in Chestertown, New York in 1980. She co-founded the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs, New York and also taught at the Waldorf School in Wolcott, Vermont. She nursed Bill for four years after a severe stroke until his death in 1996. She never stopped reading, studying or playing piano until a very advanced age. Her family and wide circle of friends will remember her with much love and admiration as a dedicated mother, romantic idealist, and loyal friend. She is survived by four of her five daughters, her grandchildren Nicolas, Sophia and Beatrice, and her three great-grandsons William, Noah and Benjamin.
Condolences may be mailed to Maynard D. Baker Funeral Home, 11 Lafayette St., Queensbury, NY 12804, or e-mailed through www.bakerfuneralhome.com.
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