Sante Fe, New Mexico
1929 - 2014 (Age 84)
LOIS ANN GEARY July 25th, 1929 June 28th, 2014 Lois Ann Geary was born on July 25th, 1929 in Fort Wayne, IN, the second of six children. The family moved to Cincinnati, OH in 1938, where Lois spent the following 23 years. In 1961 Lois arrived in Santa Fe, NM where she lived until her death. Lois...
Read MoreDecades 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.
Charlotte Vedeler
March 05, 2015 | Santa Fe, NM
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...
Julia Lamm
December 15, 2014 | Washington, DC
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...
Teresa Panza
September 12, 2014 | Taos, NM
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...
Cass Ray
July 01, 2014 | Denali Park, AK
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...
July 01, 2014
May the God of all comfort grant you peace at this difficult time.
July 01, 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
July 01, 2014