Lois Kuznets DOWLING

She created a Readers Theater group. We met at their home in Ann Arbor regularly, enjoying a potluck dinner and doing all sorts of out loud reading, preparing for public performances. She allowed me to use my humble scripts for some of the reading. She provided so much fun! How lucky we were to have benefitted from her generosity and spirit and unwavering steadiness and trust. Thanks, Lois. You are and always will be a standout in my life. See you later.

I have been thinking of Lois often of late. Lois used to help me with my fiction-writing by reading and discussing drafts I'd written. Her thoughts were always helpful to me and her manner of communicating about them was calm and respectful, so it was easy to make good use of her ideas. We usually met in downtown Ann Arbor, at Sweetwaters, and I miss seeing her there. But I can see her well, and hear her, as I write this. One just gets used to being without someone, but then a memory...

I just discovered this sad news. I kept in touch with Lois since our high school days, and since my emails to her didn't bounce, I hoped she was still okay after her move to Texas.

She was one of the most brilliant women I've ever known, and an inspiration to all who knew her.

We attended our 50th reunion in Hamden, Connecticut, in 2002, with several other close friends, and I had a great visit with her again in 2009 when she and Jim detoured through Ottawa in order to see me...

Aeons ago, Lois and I were office mates at Lehman College and instant good friends. It was only right that I too had daughters named Miriam and Noemi. She and Jim hosted annual holiday parties for the whole department that were the jolliest of my life. We kept in touch, and I enjoyed visiting her and Jim (and his muffins) in San Diego. I treasured her capacity for joy, for subtlety, and for frankness. Just now, I remembered her Aunt Celia's favorable opinion of my holiday goose and phoned to...

Lois was a wonderful friend. And it wasn't until we were classmates at Swarthmore that we found we were distant cousins. Lois opened the way for a detailed investigation of our common ancestry, for which I am immensely grateful. Above all, I miss her warmth and brilliance as an individual.

Lois has joined her Jim, and they will both live on in the hearts of their family and their friends, including their PTD friends. It has been a privilege to know them. We miss you, Lois.

dearest Lois, I miss her warmth, her quiet humor, her wonderful depth of caring for people...she was a wonderful true friend

Although I have been silent through all of this, Lois has been in my heart every second, and she always will be. Mary PTD

Miss her already, lovely woman.