Lois Hanna Lawless

Lois Hanna Lawless, 92, graduated from this life to the next on the 28th of January 2015 in Houston, Texas. She was born on the 13th of July 1922 in Houston. Lois received her bachelor and master degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and completed all requirements but the dissertation for her doctorate.

She taught drama at Robert E. Lee High School and Lee College in Baytown, Texas. The majority of her professional career was in psychological testing for the Texas Employment Commission. She was a member of First Methodist Church and was passionate about her Dalmatians, her German heritage, her family and friends, especially Mr. Kenneth Starnes.

Lois is preceded in death by her beloved daughter, Lee Katherine Lawless, her husband, James Milton Lawless, her mother and father, Lena Katherine and William Leo Hanna, her brother E. U. Hanna, her sister Vivian Katherine Smith, nephew Gene Marshall Smith, and great nephews, Brett and Bradley Wims. She is survived by her sister and brother in law, Jean and Reagan Cates of Marshall, Texas, niece Sandra and husband David Wims of Grandbury, Texas, niece Dianne Goggan of Austin, Texas, niece Linda and husband Gene Bosse of Ingram, Texas, niece Rachel and husband Charles Morse of Little Rock, Arkansas, niece Regina Victoria Cates of Beverly Hills, California, and nephew Bill and wife Jane Hanna of Caldwell, Texas, and niece by marriage, Sharon Smith. Lois is also survived by ten great nieces and nephews and twenty great, great nieces and nephews. She loved her family deeply and each was an integral part of her life.

The family wishes to acknowledge Tonette Outland, Beverly Prince, and Donna Angulo for the loving care they provided Lois.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from two o’clock until four o’clock in the afternoon on Sunday, the 1st of February, in the parlor and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

The funeral service is to be conducted at ten o’clock in the morning on Monday, the 2nd of February, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, where the Rev. Charles Thompson, Associate Pastor of First United Methodist Church, is to officiate.

The interment will follow at Tryon Cemetery in Kurten, Texas.

Contributions in her honor can be made to Explorations in Antiquity Center, P. O. Box 3900, LeGrange, Georgia 30241, a Dalmatian Rescue Organization, or to the charity of one’s choice.