Sheila R. (Kuntze) VanVoastApril 3, 1926 - June 24, 2017Sheila R. (Kuntze) VanVoast died suddenly and peacefully on June 24, 2017 in Brunswick, Ga. She was 91.Sheila was born on April 3, 1926 in Mount Vernon, N.Y., to Isabel Saxe and Raymond Jerome Reinhardsen. In 1930 she moved to Redding, Conn., and lived above the Mark Twain Library where her mother "Belle" served as librarian. Sheila graduated from Danbury High School and moved to Manhattan to attend the Flower Fifth Avenue School of Nursing where she met and married her first husband, C. Donald Kuntze, in 1948.They lived for a while in Frankfurt, Germany, before settling in Leonia, N.J., in 1956 and together they raised four children. The family spent winter and summer vacations enjoying the outdoors in North Conway, N.H., and Lake George, N.Y.With her nursing degree Sheila gave her attention and love as a nurse at Englewood Hospital in New Jersey and as a private duty nurse at the New York Hospital for Special Surgery. Later in life, Sheila volunteered in triage/admissions at Glens Falls Hospital in upstate New York. In 1987 Sheila met and married her second husband, Horace "Bo" Silliman VanVoast III and they resided in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for two decades, while also enjoying time at the Lake George home. Sheila's final move was to Brunswick, Ga., in 2015 to be near her daughter, Megan. She thrived at full capacity doing all the things she loved while living in a wonderful community on the Golden Isles Coast.Sheila was genuinely witty, very social, a great cook and a fabulous hostess. She loved many things including snow skiing, water skiing, fishing, swimming, tennis, knitting, boating on their Chris Craft, daily crossword puzzles and cocktail hour. Lake George was her true love and was a part of her family's heritage dating back to the 1920s. She also played bridge regularly and had a deep passion for Scrabble. On the day before she passed, she landed a seven-letter word on a triple score. Sheila lived a charmed life and she knew it. She is survived by her sons, Alan Joseph Kuntze II (Libby Mills) of Bay View, Wash., and Christopher Donald Kuntze of Whitefield, N.H., her daughter Megan Kuntze (William F. Kardas) of Shellman Bluff, Ga., her grandson Davin Brook Kuntze of Brooklyn, N.Y., and her beloved friend and personal assistant Simone Souza Owens of Darien, Ga. She was predeceased by her first husband, C. Donald Kuntze, M.D., her second husband Horace (Bo) Silliman VanVoast III and her son Seth Colin Kuntze.A memorial tribute will be held at Saratoga National Cemetery, at 3 P.M. on Friday, August 11. For information call (413) 207-1138.