She was born on October 27, 1923 in the town of Malang, on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (currently Indonesia) to Frederik (Frits) Willem Morren and Jeannette Everdina Johanna Mulder.
Louise and her older sister Netty grew up in the Netherlands after their parents returned to their native land in 1929. She had a joyful childhood bicycling around The Hague and skating on the canals. She attended a rigorous high school focused on science and medicine, where she also studied multiple languages including Latin and Greek. However, just as she completed high school, life in Holland was drastically disrupted by the Nazi occupation in World War II. It was only after the war that she could continue her studies at the University of Leiden, where she received a Master’s degree in Pharmacy. She then took the remarkably adventurous step of embarking to the United States to work in a chemistry lab at the University of Minnesota. There she met her future husband, Paul Kazuo Kuroda, a native of Japan. They married in 1953, and made their first home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arkansas.
In Fayetteville, Louise lived a full life, with family, travel, and homemaking. In the early years she was a research assistant in the chemistry department. After focusing on raising her children, she later taught undergraduate lab classes, studied library science, and worked in the local public schools. In 1987, the Kurodas retired in Las Vegas, where their growing extended family enjoyed many happy reunions.
Louise is survived by her children, Paul M. Kuroda, Annette Kuroda Russell, and Mitzi I. Kuroda, and six grandchildren: Sherry and Vanessa Kuroda, Theresa and Steven Russell, and Daniel and Susanna Elledge.
A loving wife, mother, and grandmother, she will be greatly missed. Her private memorial service was held on February 1, 2019 at Palm Cemetery.
