Lois Teston

Lois Marie (Smail) Teston, 84, went home to be with her Lord on Friday, January 24, 2025, after a courageous and gracious battle with Parksonism and heart disease. Her daughter, Tracey, was by her side at their home in Eldersburg, Maryland.

On February 21, 1940, Lois was born in Madison Pennsylvania. She graduated from Sewickley High School in Herminie Pennsylvania and earned a Secretarial degree at Bob Jones University in South Carolina.

Lois then lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Faye and Jimmy Broy, in College Park Maryland where she worked as a secretary at Litton Industries. She married Jerry Alan Teston in 1963. They spent most of their 54 years together in Columbia Maryland. Lois continued her secretarial work at Thunder Hill and Atholton Elementary schools in Columbia and retired after working 26 years at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel.

Lois provided a loving and safe home for her family. She was a devoted caregiver to three of her elderly family members. She loved sharing good meals and playing a card game after with her family. Lois always arrived 15 minutes early, prepared and willing to do her part. Her time here with us was too short.

Her survivors include her loving daughter, Tracey, and nieces, nephews, friends, and Olive. She was predeceased by her loving husband, Jerry Teston; father, Earl Smail; mother, Gladys Olive (Altman) Smail; sisters Faye Gladys (Smail) Broy, Bonnie Lee (Smail) Stough, Patricia (Smail) Glenn and Shirley (Smail) Messner; brothers Donald and Gilbert Smail; and brothers-in-law Jimmy H. Broy and Lyman W. Stough.