Lauren M. Eagle

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Lauren M. Eagle was the first born child of Charles Byron Mitchell and Dorothy T. Mitchell from Houston. She was soon joined by her BELOVED younger brother B.T.“Tim” Mitchell in her sojourn through her early life. Sadly, he was to contract paralytic polio as a small child, leaving him with a bad leg and “crippled” status. While he was ailing, she was sent to live with a favorite Aunt Ellen and her husband, Doctor Bob Harris. With a little brother to protect, and her Daddy the manager of the Houston Clinic, she no doubt developed a lifelong interest in getting to know people and a desire to help them whenever she could and in whatever way she was able. Her father was called to Washington, D.C. before the end of World War II to help make the Veteran’s Administration system ready for an expected influx of veterans, so the family made a big move there from Houston. There she completed her secondary education at Holy Cross Academy in Arlington, Virginia. After that tour, they returned to Texas where she began her university education at age fifteen at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and was a member of Alpha Delta Pi. Somehow she met a young cadet in flight school from San Antonio at a USO dance in Dallas. A long distance romance began which sustained him during fearful runs across the English Channel, and eventually back to safety back in the US after V.E. Day. Lauren married Harold S. Eagle June 1946 near Chicago where she began teaching high school at age 19! He decided to re-enlist, finding she had the “right stuff” to be a military wife, able to pull up stakes with kids in tow, making new friends, keeping the old, with an eye for what new people and interests may be down the winding road. She returned to teaching after everyone was in school, and got a Master’s Degree at UCLA. After retiring from Los Angeles City Schools to Edmond in 1980, she decided to get a Master’s Degree in Counseling. She worked on projects for respite care for those homebound with handicapped children, and did grief work through a “new” concept regarding death and dying called Hospice! She later began a long counseling and rewarding counseling career at St. John’s. She was devoted to those in need. Together she and Harold had five children and adopted one more during 62 years of marriage and countless moves. She was always willing to listen and to provide counsel. She is survived by two daughters and two sons, 10 grandchildren, two sons-in-law and a daughter-in-law, and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services for Lauren will be held at The Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Edmond at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Father John Metzinger will officiate. Interment will be at Gracelawn Cemetery. A Rosary service will be held at Monday, October 13, 2014, 7:00 p.m.