Alice Verona Winfrey passed away peacefully on April 4, 2025. Alice’s legacy was one of love, as she was a devoted mother to her two children and three grandchildren.

She was born Alice Verona Medin on October 14, 1929 on her parents’ farm in Bogus Creek, Pepin, Wisconsin. She is the daughter of Carl Walter Medin and Lena Jane (Aase) Medin whose families immigrated from Sweden and Norway respectively. Alice is preceded in death by her parents, her brother Carl Robert Medin and her sister Leona Mae Bulmer. She is survived by two sisters, Della Works of Casper, Wyoming and Mildred Lilleskov of Rochester, Minnesota.

After graduating from high school in 1947, Alice worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She loved art and while in Philadelphia, Alice took classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Alice later worked at the Navy Department in Washington, D.C. where she took an art class at the Corcoran Gallery. One of her charcoal drawings from that class was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery.

Alice married in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and raised two children with her former husband, Charles Robert Winfrey, who passed away in 2009.

Following the birth of her children in 1964 and 1967, Alice was a full-time homemaker until 1973 when she went to work for Charlton Brothers Transportation Company in Hagerstown, Maryland.

After retiring in 1990, Alice enjoyed gardening, painting, home renovation projects, and visiting her children and grandchildren. She also volunteered for many years at the Maryland Theater and at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Alice is survived by her daughter, Suzanne (Ross) Chun of Aliso Viejo, California and a son, Cary (Meghan) Winfrey of Castaways Beach, Queensland, Australia; three grandchildren, Sarah Alice Chun and Evan George Chun of Aliso Viejo, California and Edmund Charles Winfrey of Castaways Beach, Queensland, Australia; and many nieces and nephews.

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