Ann Radcliff passed away peacefully at her home on February 20, 2021. She was so looking forward to being reunited with her husband Richard who had passed on before her in 2015. She is now dancing happily in heaven with him and her beloved brother Henry Whitfield who passed on in 2014.Ann was born in Connecticut in 1933 and is survived by her three children, John Radcliff (wife Louise), Jean Ruhlen (husband Matt), Julianna Cohan (husband JT) and four grandchildren, her sister-in-law and her five nieces and their families.A florist by trade, Ann was the consummate teacher. She enjoyed sharing her love of flowers and flower arranging with young and old alike, taking many young people under her wing over the years. When she lived in Webster, New York where her husband Richard worked at Kodak, she was very involved with the Kodak Rose Show.While in Webster, she started her own business, Willow Rose Orchids where she became a wedding specialist. She later became involved with the Master Gardeners and started cross hybridizing roses for the Jackson-Perkins company. Her gardens were legendary. While in Webster, she had over 100 different varieties of daffodils.Her other loves involved animals of all kinds. Over the years she and Richard had many rabbits, ducks, geese, canaries and cats. Her famous goose Lucy was the best guard dog anyone could ever ask for! At some point, she started raising Siamese which became her cat of choice. Most of her wedding flower photo albums are full of pictures with flowers as well as cats!After Richard retired from Kodak, he and Ann moved to Biglerville, Pennsylvania, just outside of Gettysburg, so she could be closer to her beloved brother Henry and his family. There, she became very involved in growing dahlias. She became a lifetime member of the American Dahlia society and later founded the Gettysburg Dahlia society. At one point, she was planting 400 dahlia bulbs every year. Again, these gardens became legendary, often on Dahlia Society garden tours!Another of Ann's many loves was her desire to serve her personal Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, by serving others. She was very involved with her church, fundraising, serving those in the community, and being a champion for the underdog. Whether it was getting the community to buy a new door for the men's Mission, or making and selling chocolate covered Easter eggs to raise money for missions at her church, Ann was always doing things for others.One of the favorite family memories is from the snow storm of 1978. Ann had gone out to shovel at noon and came back inside remarking that the sky was a funny color and that there were hundreds of birds at the birdfeeder. Shortly there after a man knocked on the door asking to use the phone saying that his car was stuck in a snowdrift, but the phone was dead. The wind had just kicked up and the snow had started to fall fast and hard. By 5 o'clock that night there were 30 stranded motorists. Ann worked with some of the guests to figure out how to feed everyone, in the end, making giant pots of chili. Finding places for everyone to sleep was another matter! Especially when two of the stranded guests were allergic to cats! But that was Ann, always doing what needed to be done to serve someone else.Another magical time at Ann's house was Christmas. She had five or so walnut trees on her property in Webster and those walnuts always found their way into her famous batches of fudge. She made fudge for days in the month of December and took great delight in giving it away to everyone including the postal workers, the garbage men, the people at the veterinary clinic, and anyone else in her daily walk of life. She also hosted her church's Christmas International House Christmas party every year for international students who weren't able to go home during winter break from college. Her family loved meeting these new international students who quickly became friends.Ann's life of service is the beautiful legacy she has left to her family and all who knew her. She will be greatly missed but we are all rejoicing with her that she is reunited with her loved ones in heaven. A garden party memorial service will be planned for later in the summer after the dahlias are in full bloom.