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for Lois Geary
Charlotte Vedeler
March 5, 2015
Decades ago Lois inspired the likes of me to enjoy local theater work. Right now, however, I'm thinking mostly of a hike I once took with her & another friend near the Santa Fe Ski Basin. As we adventured along rain started to drench us. We laughed ourselves silly but kept looking up as we slopped along. Her humor led the way.
Julia Lamm
December 15, 2014
Lois was our "Aunt Lois" because she was one of our mother's (Grace McGinniss Lamm's) dearest life-time friends. When we were children, we had a magical vacation visiting Aunt Lois in Santa Fe, and decades later my husband and I visited her in Santa Fe during our honeymoon. A ritual pattern in my life was receiving a birthday card from Aunt Lois--always on time, always with a thoughtful note written in her beautiful cursive. She was generous and fun, and she loved life. Truly a gift to everyone who knew her. Rest in peace, dear Aunt.
Teresa Panza
September 12, 2014
I met Lois through a mutual friend in the late 1980's and was delighted to move closer to her in 2001 as I made my "vacation" spot, Taos, NM, my permanent home. This past spring, I called Lois when I was headed to Santa Fe as was my habit. She said she couldn't go to lunch and didn't feel up to company. She told me she would call me when she was feeling better. A busy summer has past and I was missing my friend. As I somehow suspected, she has gone from this earthly home. I'm very sad to learn this. I'm very sad not to have known... Rest in peace, my dear. Enjoy all your furry friends over the rainbow bridge. I'll see you again...
Cass Ray
July 1, 2014
My wonderful friend and confidante Lois was the first Santa Fean I met when I moved there in the autumn of '75. Thirty-nine (39) years later, a month ago, she (and Penny, Launcelot, and Mamie) sent me, per always, a snail-mail birthday card; last week I sent one to her. Two years ago, when I traveled from Alaska to Albuquerque for training, I made a point of driving to Santa Fe, flowers in hand (the card addressed to "Mrs. Parker," Lois' character in the film "Silverado"), to visit Lois (and Penny, Launcelot, and Mamie); the next day I took her for lunch and cervezas at her favorite Mexican food joint on Cerrillos. Though we'd never lost touch, through my twenty-six years in New York and half dozen years in Alaska (animal lover that she was, she expected me to save the Last Frontier's wolves, single-handedly), it was the first time I had seen her, or her beloved Land of Enchantment, in thirty-three (33) years. When I moved to Santa Fe, Lois worked for the realtor Wally Sargent, and that's how we met: she arranged for me to rent half of a house; living in the other half were two young Mormon elders, who also became great friends of Lois' and mine. Lois and I played plenty of ping pong and did a lot of hiking and dining and toasting, and even went on two dates. One of them was on Christmas Eve, in, I guess, '76, and in the middle of the night I strolled from the gorgeously candle-lit adobe she was sitting (on Caminito?) across town back to my house; I'll never forget all the farolitos all along the way--a magical night. Seven years ago, when I cleaned out the basement in New York, there was the hand-scrawled journal I kept while I lived in Santa Fe; before tossing it, I wrote to Lois and shared with her many of the parts that included her. She pronounced herself especially chagrined by the report of the night she, fresh from a particularly eventful Santa Fe soiree, let herself into my tiny digs, and the bathroom, seated herself on the closed toilet, lit a series of cigarettes, and happily shared all the news from the fete. Such wonderful, colorful friends don't come along often. Through the four years that I lived in Santa Fe, Los Lunas, and Albuquerque, I never missed one of Lois' community theatre performances--she even made me try out for "Hot L Baltimore" (I, unlike my more talented friend Lois, was not awarded a role)--and through all the years since, she always let me know when she appeared in a film (she proclaimed her ladies' man "co-star" Arnold Schwarzenegger the complete gentleman). I own "Silverado" and maybe this evening I'll again watch her cameo as "Mrs. Parker." In two weeks I have tickets for opening night of the musical "Book of Mormon" in Seattle; I'll have an excuse to think of my young Mormon neighbors of four decades ago and of course of my wonderful friend Lois, who, in her next role, already is a superstar.
July 1, 2014
My wonderful friend and confidante Lois was the first Santa Fean I met when I moved there in the autumn of '75. Thirty-nine (39) years later, a month ago, she (and Penny, Launcelot, and Mamie) sent me, per always, a snail-mail birthday card; last week I sent one to her. Two years ago, when I traveled from Alaska to Albuquerque for training, I made a point of driving to Santa Fe, flowers in hand (the card addressed to "Mrs. Parker," Lois' character in the film "Silverado"), to visit Lois (and Penny, Launcelot, and Mamie); the next day I took her for lunch and cervezas at her favorite Mexican food joint on Cerrillos. Though we'd never lost touch, through my twenty-six years in New York and half dozen years in Alaska (animal lover that she was, she expected me to save the Last Frontier's wolves, single-handedly), it was the first time I had seen her, or her beloved Land of Enchantment, in thirty-three (33) years. When I moved to Santa Fe, Lois worked for the realtor Wally Sargent, and that's how we met: she arranged for me to rent half of a house; living in the other half were two young Mormon elders, who also became great friends of Lois' and mine. Lois and I played plenty of ping pong and did a lot of hiking and dining and toasting, and even went on two dates. One of them was on Christmas Eve, in, I guess, '76, and in the middle of the night I strolled from the gorgeously candle-lit adobe she was sitting (on Caminito?) across town back to my house; I'll never forget all the farolitos all along the way--a magical night. Seven years ago, when I cleaned out the basement in New York, there was the hand-scrawled journal I kept while I lived in Santa Fe; before tossing it, I wrote to Lois and shared with her many of the parts that included her. She pronounced herself especially chagrined by the report of the night she, fresh from a particularly eventful Santa Fe soiree, let herself into my tiny digs, and the bathroom, seated herself on the closed toilet, lit a series of cigarettes, and happily shared all the news from the fete. Such wonderful, colorful friends don't come along often. Through the four years that I lived in Santa Fe, Los Lunas, and Albuquerque, I never missed one of Lois' community theatre performances--she even made me try out for "Hot L Baltimore" (I, unlike my more talented friend Lois, was not awarded a role)--and through all the years since, she always let me know when she appeared in a film (she proclaimed her ladies' man "co-star" Arnold Schwarzenegger the complete gentleman). I own "Silverado" and maybe this evening I'll again watch her cameo as "Mrs. Parker." In two weeks I have tickets for opening night of the musical "Book of Mormon" in Seattle; I'll have an excuse to think of my young Mormon neighbors of four decades ago and of course of my wonderful friend Lois, who, in her next role, already is a superstar. Cass Ray, Denali Park, Alaska
July 1, 2014
May the God of all comfort grant you peace at this difficult time.
July 1, 2014
I had the pleasure of working with Lois at the School for Advanced Research many years ago. All of her former co-workers share this moment in thinking of Lois, and send our condolences to her family and friends.
Carol Sandoval, SAR
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