& Stephen Matthews, ShaLee & Casey Willmott, John Eric & Ashley Griffin, Kandi & Dustin Sloan, Katie Crawford & Trevor Nowlin, Kelsi & Derek Schaefer, Garrett Griffin, Shelby & Cody Corder, Julie Griffin and Cassidy Griffin. She was also blessed with six, according to her, talented and amazingly intelligent great-grandchildren, Chasity Stricklin, Chloe Stricklin, Cadence Matthews, Kolbi Matthews, ShaeLynn Willmott, Andrea Marie (Andi) Corder and Laney Lois Sloan with another great-granddaughter on the way, Hazel Kay Schaefer.
Lois was a preacher's kid and a tomboy. She was a mechanic, an amazing mathematician, a truck driver and a fisherman (and maybe a bit of a race car driver). Her church rented a monster truck to give rides - she rode twice!
She helped her husband provide for their family working at an electronics factory, a box factory and a sewing factory, as well as a nursing care center. If she had been born in a different time, she could have been a brain surgeon or a top notch lawyer. She was that smart.
Lois loved camping in the Colorado Rocky Mountains with her family. and she was competitive, nailing her young grandson with a well-thrown softball during a "friendly" game of baseball. Her teams were the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers. She kept stats on each player. She was fiercely loyal to close friends and a master at pinching pennies.
Only God could tell us how much she sacrificed for others throughout her life.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the River of Life Church in Eastland. Burial will follow in The Evergreen Cemetery in Ranger. The family will receive friends at Edwards Funeral Home in Ranger Saturday, 6~8 p.m.