Williams, Lois (Losen) -- 1922 - 1996
LOSEN, WILLIAMS, JERVAN, HAYES, STOSKOPF
Posted By: Bill Waters (email)
Date: 1/14/2012 at 14:54:56
Lois Losen Williams was born April 8, 1922 in Astoria, Oregon, the second of three daughters born to Pastor Carl Losen, a native of Winneshiek County, and Pearl Jervan, a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1926 the family moved to Locust, where Pastor and Mrs. Losen would serve the St. John's/Hauge Parish tor the next 25 years. Their son. Carl, Jr., was born here in 1931.
Lois attended the Locust School through eighth grade and then Decorah High School until her graduation in 1939. After attending Luther College (her father’s alma mater) for one year, she entered Fairview School of Nursing in Minneapolis.
She graduated with a nursing degree in 1943 and continued at Fairview Hospital, when she and her younger sister Evelyn also a registered nurse joined the Army Nurse Corps. They were assigned to Schick General Hospital in Clinton, Iowa where Norman Williams, Lois' husband-to-be, was recuperating from wounds suffered in France in 1944.
Lois was discharged from the Army in February 1946 and moved to Detroit to be with Evelyn, who had married Kenneth Hayes — another patient at Schick, Norm, in the meantime, was transferred to a base not far from Detroit.
On May 7, 1946, Lois and Norm were married here at St. John's by Pastor Losen. Their first son, Thomas, was born in the Army Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan on June 9, 1947.
After retiring from the service, Norm attended Luther College, graduated in 1951, and began his career as a producer/director for KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska. Lois worked part-time as a nurse in Lutheran Hospitals Their second son, John, was born in 1953.
In 1965 they moved to Shenandoah, Iowa where Norm served as general manager of the company's parent radio station. They returned to Omaha in 1971 when Norm became a corporate executive of the Broadcasting Company.
Since Norm's retirement in 1987, the couple has lived in Green Valley, Arizona. Lois loved to golf, play bridge, travel with Norm, and give parties for their many friends. An avid Cornhusker fan, she was overjoyed when Nebraska's football team won their second national championship in a row this year.
Over the last 4 years, Lois suffered with polymalgia rheumatica, a painful inflammation of muscles for which the only known treatment is the steroid Prednisone, which, among other things damages the vascular system. On Tuesday, January 9, 1996, after undergoing two emergency vascular operations, Lois died at the Tucson Medical Center.
She is survived by her husband Norman, her son Thomas, daughter-in-law Kay, and grandchildren, Erin, Colleen and Mickey, all of Omaha. Nebraska, her son John of Las Cruces, New Mexico; her sister Evelyn , and brother-in-law Kenneth Hayes of Melbourne, Florida; and her brother Carl and sister-in-law Joan of Richmond, VA.
She is preceded in death by her father Carl, her mother Pearl, and her sister Phyllis and brother-in-law Erin Stoskopf.
Source: funeral bulletin
Submitted by John Matter jmatter@q.com
Locust Cemetery aka Saint John
Winneshiek Obituaries maintained by Bruce Kuennen.
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