Lois Elizabeth Strauss, age 95, of Malvern, died Tuesday in the Hot Spring County Medical Center. 
She was born December 29, 1907, in Monticello, Arkansas, to the late Mr. and Mrs. Young R. Royal. 
Reared and receiving her early education in Monticello, Mrs. Strauss graduated from Ouachita Baptist University 
with a B.S.E. degree and went on the earn her Master's degree in education. 
A great deal of her career was spent teaching in the Malvern Public School System, from which she retired in 1968. 
She was a member of the First United Methodist Chruch, where she had taught Sunday School for many years. 
Mrs. Strauss was also a faithful and longtime member of the Hot spring County Medical Center Auxiliary. 
She was the widow of the late Edwin N. Strauss, who died in Decemebr of 1971.
Her surviors include her step-son, Edwin N. Strauss of Malvern, two nieces, Carolyn Neal of Little Rock and 
Margaret Brown of California; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at eleven o'clock Thursday morning, June 26, 2003, 
in the Toler Chapel of First United Methodist Church with reverend Roy P. Smith fficiating. 
Arrangements are by J.A. Funk Funeral Home.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of her Sunday School Class.
The family request that in lieu of flowers, memorials may take the form of contributions to First United Methodist Church.
-Malvern Daily Record
(6/25/03)