Pamela Lee Poole Hahn

PAMELA LEE POOLE HAHN, a computer programmer, educator and mother, died Friday, October 17, 2003, after a brief fight with brain cancer. She was 51. She graduated from Memorial High School in 1970 cum laude with the outstanding award for math. She spent three summers working at MD Anderson in the computer science department. She spent one year at Stephens College before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics with a minor in computer science in 1974. She was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She spent nine years as a computer programmer at TRW Controls in Houston before leaving in 1983 to raise her two young sons. She volunteered and then worked part-time as a bookkeeper at her son's pre-school at St. Luke's United Methodist Church for five years. She then volunteered and later worked in the computer science lab at the Rice School, where one of her sons attended. She joined St. Thomas High School in 1996 to teach computer programming and later became dean of it's technology department. She earned her master of education degree from the University of St. Thomas in December 2000. She is survived by her husband, Dewayne Edmond Hahn; her sons, Justin and Patrick; her mother, Ina Claire Walsh; her brother, Steven Poole; her sister, Claire Poole Auchter and her husband Ron; her aunt, Francis Poole Knight; her cousins, Charlie Knight and his wife Tara, Cynthia Knight Smith and her husband Dehn, Laurie Price and her husband Tim, and Mary Sinderson; her brother-in-law, Elwin Hahn and his wife Ouida; her sister-in-law, Ervilene and her husband Stephen Kuhlmann; nephews, Jeremy and Joshua Hahn; nieces, Rachel and Olivia Poole, Maddy and Catie Auchter, and Kathryn and Kristen Kuhlmann. A memorial Service will be held at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at Faith Lutheran Church, 4600 Bellaire Boulevard. In lieu of flowers please send contributions to your favorite charity.