Lois R. Guehring

Lois was an excellent student. Lois graduated Magna Cum Laude from Westminster College with her Bachelor of Science. On August 6, 1966, she married her high school sweetheart Jme. They raised two sons, Keith and Brian. She was a dedicated high school math and geometry teacher. Lois taught math at The Kinkaid Upper School for one year and taught geometry at Bellaire High School for many years. She found creative ways to engage countless teenagers in math class (including cow and pizza word problems), to help them solve logic problems and bisect angles.

Lois was a passionate reader, and loyal book club member for over 50 years. A lifetime of reading Nero Wolfe Mysteries, attending Agatha Christie plays, and watching episodes of PBS Mystery! made her a sleuth equal to Jessica Fletcher (of Murder, She Wrote!, another of her favorite mystery series). She passed along her love of reading to first her sons and then her grandson. There are so many pictures of her reading to her sons, her nieces, and her grandson.

She instilled her love in the arts by giving “culture points” to her sons growing up for attending cultural events, encouraging them to attend theater, dance, and museums. (And by “encouraging” her sons to attend artistic events, she meant required. Her strategy definitely worked as her sons ended up majoring in visual art and theater in college). For decades, she was a dedicated choir member at Covenant Church attending rehearsal every Thursday night and singing at all the Sunday services. She was a huge patron of the Houston Opera as a loyal season ticket holder for many years. She even volunteered for the Houston Opera to get student groups ready to see a matinee of an opera (even buying her first laptop computer in order to help with the workshops).

Lois loved costumes and history of fashion (a big draw to the big productions at the Houston Opera). She subscribed to Vogue magazine forever and even went back to school when her boys were teenagers to study fashion merchandising. She made many famous (in family storytelling) Halloween costumes for her sons.

She was an incredible baker of pies, cookies, and cakes. She lovingly baked and decorated birthday cakes (and also used the opportunity to save candles and teach math by putting the birthday year in a specific base that we had to figure out before we could blow out the candle). Lois and her grandson spent many a delightful afternoon designing and decorating sugar cookies (she even added dinosaur, Star Wars and pirate cookie cutters to her collection just for him).

Lois was an enthusiastic traveler. Growing up, she spent many vacations in their family cabin in Canada. She took her sons on different vacations exploring American History (trips that included lots of historic home tours and pre-trip required reading for her sons. Yes, teacher Lois made her sons do homework during the summer to prepare for vacations.) When her children grew up, she and Jme enjoyed exploring the natural beauty of the national parks, experiencing the exciting cuisine in Europe, and learning about different cultures through cruises lead by professors who were experts. As a grandmother, she enjoyed taking her grandson and family to Estes Park, the beach, and a couple of memorable trips to Disney.

She just celebrated her 65th Valentine’s Day with husband Jme. Their inspiring relationship morphed from academic school rivals, to high school steadies, to newlyweds in a new state, to proud and supportive parents of two rambunctious boys, to doting grandparents of their perfect grandson. They really modeled for their sons what a supportive, loving, and playful marriage can be.

Lois was preceded in death by her father Jack and her mother, Dorothy. She is survived by her husband Jme, her brothers Bruce and Alan, her son Keith, daughter-in-law Monica, son Brian, son-in-law Michael, and grandson Landon.

She will be missed by the many people whose lives she touched. Her memory will be kept alive by family and friends through baking for loved ones, sharing stories and books, enthusiastically supporting the arts, listening with our whole heart, and using our learned geometry skills in our everyday lives.

A celebration of life for Lois Guehring will be held at Covenant Church at 4949 Caroline St. in Houston, Texas on Saturday March 11th at 2pm with a reception after.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to Houston Food Bank at

https://www.houstonfoodbank.org/ or to Covenant Church at www.covenanthouston.org/giving .

For those wishing to attend the memorial virtually, it will be live streamed on YouTube live at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lz1UPPYqmU

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.earthmanbellaire.com for the Guehring family.