Obituaries

LOIS HALLER

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:21 PM CDT

DUMAS — Lois Lee Haller, age 95, passed on peacefully at the home of her son, Earl Lee Haller in San Jose, Calif., on June 28, 2009, with Earl Lee by her side.

Lois, a native of Arkadelphia, Ark., was the oldest of three children born to Clifford and Annie Lee. She was born 7 June 1914.

After high school, she graduated in 1934 from Henderson State College, where she prepared for a career in teaching, majoring in Latin, speech, and drama. In September of that year, she was hired by Superintendent D.W. Gill Sr. to teach in Dumas Public Schools. She taught there, taking little time off to have her children, until she retired in 1974 after 36 years of dedicated service.

In 1938, she married Earl Haller of Dumas. They had many good years together until he died in 1977. Together, they had three children.

She is survived by her sister, Sue Millsapps, formerly of Benton, now of Tulsa, Okla.; Sue’s daughter, Sheri and her husband Bo Farmer, formerly of Dumas, now Tulsa, Okla.; a very close first cousin, Sarah Thompson of Arkadelphia, Ark.; Nancy Timmons Young, mother of her first two grandchildren, of Jasper, Ark.; granddaughter, Karen Haller Buffer and her husband, Cody, of Fayetteville Ark., her first grandson, David Haller of Cambridge, Mass.; her son, Earl Lee Haller and his wife, Carol Hrebec and their sons, Hunter and Russell; her son, Harold Haller and his wife, Christine and their sons, Carson and Daniel of Fayetteville, Ark., and her daughter, Sarah Sue Haller of Dumas, Ark.

Visitation will be at Griffin Funeral Home, Wednesday, July 1 from 6 until 8 p.m. The family, and anyone who wants to join, will lay her to rest at Walnut Lake Cemetery, Thursday, July 2 at 9 a.m. A celebration of her life will begin at 10 a.m. at First United Methodist Church of Dumas, where she was a member, followed at 11 a.m. with fellowship and food at the church.

The family sincerely hopes that many of her friends and former students can join them to share in celebration of a life well lived.

In lieu of flowers, any donations in her memory may be made to the Lois and Earl Haller Scholarship Fund, c/o the Delta Area Community Foundation, P.O. Box 894, Dumas Ark., 71639.

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