Lois E. Kors

Lois E. Kors, 98 years of age, of Beatrice passed away at the Beatrice PEO Home Saturday morning, January 21, 2012. She was born on November 7, 1913 in Beatrice to Walter and Mamie (Wolf) Kors and lived in Beatrice her entire life. Lois was a 1931 graduate of Beatrice High School, attended two years at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, and then graduated from the University Of Nebraska with a degree in Education in 1936. Her life was devoted to working with young children. She had taught school at the elementary level for42 years. Lois taught at Odell, NE. for 3 years, and then for 39 years at East School and then at Lincoln Elementary in Beatrice retiring in 1977. She spent several summers as a counselor of under-privileged kids from Chicago at Lake Algonquin in Illinois. Lois was truly loved by all her friends and family and by everyone that knew her. She had been a very active member of the Centenary United Methodist Church and had received a plaque in recognition of 77 years of membership and service. Lois was a 60 year member of the honorary education society Delta Kappa Gamma; member of PEO Chapter FM; Daughters of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Montague Chapter; Order of Eastern Star, Vesper Chapter #9: Chapter member of the Gage County Historical Society; and Life-time member of the PTA. Lois enjoyed reading, antiquing, traveling, and keeping in touch with friends and former students.
Survivors include her niece Karen Eger of Colorado; and grand nephew E. Scott Gemmell of California. She was preceded in death by her parents Walter and Mamie (Wolf) Kors; 2 brothers Robert and The Reverend Max Kors; and sister in law Doris Kors.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, March 31, 2012 at the Evergreen Home Cemetery in Beatrice with Reverend Charles Spence officiating. A register book will be available at the Griffiths-Hovendick Chapel in Beatrice. A memorial has been established to the Beatrice Community Hospital Hospice and Gage County Cancer fund with the Griffiths-Hovendick Chapel in charge. You can sign Lois' guestbook at www.ghchapel.com. These services have been entrusted to the Griffiths-Hovendick Chapel in Beatrice.