Louisa passed away August 5, 2018 in Seattle at the age of 90. She was born February 3, 1928 in Quincy, Massachusetts to Charles P. and Anna Lee (Brown) Reeks.
Louisa graduated from Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts, where she was senior class president. Louisa was very musical and even sang with the USO. She attended the Quincy Hospital School of Nursing. There she earned her RN and subsequently began her career at Boston City Hospital. Louisa loved nursing, especially her time as a cardiac operating room nurse at Good Samaritan and St. Vincent's Hospitals in Los Angeles, California. Her proudest nursing accomplishment, though, was working with Drs. William and Howard House, who invented the cochlear implant. She was directly involved with these groundbreaking surgeries in the 1970s.
Louisa is survived by her son, Kenneth Lee Senter, III; daughters, Lee Jeanne Kadletz and Tana Maryn Schultz; the father of her children, Dr. Kenneth Lee Senter, Jr.; 10 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren. Louisa was devoted to her family. She was loving, generous and a wonderful example of a life well lived. She will be greatly missed.