Lois Brumley Morrell

Lois Brumley Morrell
DURHAM -- Mrs. Morrell, 39, of Atlanta, GA, formerly of Durham, NC, as a nurse, gave of herself to ensure that those she cared fro were healthy, comfortable and safe. She employed these same traits in everything from raising her three children to supporting hospice care to developing specialized education for children with learning disabilities. She was killed in a plane crash near Nairobi, Kenya, on July 19, 2003, while on a vacation with her family.
Lois was raised in Durham, NC, by the late Jean Stanback and George W. Brumley, Jr. She received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and a master's degree in neonatal-perinatal nursing from Emory University in Atlanta. She worked as a neonatal nurse practitioner in the Emory medical system for five years. She left nursing to raise her three children, Caroline McCormick, Rebecca Ingram, and the late Alexander Brumley Morrell, to whom she and her husband, the late Richard W. Morrell were devoted.
Building on her medical background, Lois served on the board of Visiting Nurse Health System (VNHS), the parent organization of Hospice Atlanta. She was particularly interested in issued related to children's hospice care and chaired fundraisers for the program that would ensure access to adequate hospice care to those with financial challenges.
To ensure that children with different learning styles have appropriate educational opportunities, Lois was active with the Schenck School, an elementary school for children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities, where she was recently named a board member. She was also active in fundraising for Trinity School.
Lois is survived by her two daughters, Nancy Jean Brumley and Marie Brumley Foster, and her husband, R. Brad Foster, all of Atlanta; her grandmother, Helen Brumley, of St. Simon's Island, GA; aunts and uncles, Frank Brumley, and his wife, Blanche, of Charleston, SC, Martha Harvey, and her husband, Joe, of Sea Island, GA, and Fred Stanback, and his wife, Alice, of Salisbury, NC; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Arrangements by H.M. Patterson & Son, Spring Hill, GA 404-876-1022.