Lois Capuder Obituary

Lois Claire Gregory (Bossart)-Capuder completed this life journey and joins her wonderful family of Edith, Vic, Carl, Wallace, Gilbert, Romaine, and Evelyn and 85 years of dear friends, in a much better place. Lois was an extraordinarily gentle, kind and forgiving person. We would always hear her stories about her mom and dad raising their large family of six in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the depression years, her excitement learning to drive the family car, being selected Pennsylvania State Champion in a base violin competition, and of course stories about her high school sweet heart -- later to become our dad, the Latrobe band Drum Major, Dana Bossart. While Dad was tending to injured American soldiers in the European Theater in WWII,  back home, Mom was making molds for American aircraft fuel bladders out of paper mache! After the war, Lois and Dana started their family near Pittsburg, PA. First came Roger (who now resides in Colorado Springs with his family), then Greg (who resides in Vero Beach, FL with his family). The two boys grew up under the watchful eye of Lois and Dana. Mom started her working career as an Executive Assistant to R.K. Mellon of the Mellon Foundation in Pittsburgh, and soon married a distinguished professor from the University of Louisiana, Al Capuder.  During these years Roger was married and starting his U.S. Air Force career. Greg was finishing high school and entering his undergraduate years at the University of Pittsburgh. Lois ensured Greg's day-to-day financial and moral support and was singularly responsible for getting Greg admitted to Pennsylvania University where he completed his Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine degree. Greg always said, "Mom was a great Dad". While supporting Greg, Lois donated much of her spare time brailing for the blind. In mid 1990's, Dana moved to Colorado Springs from Florida, primarily to be with Lois, who moved to Colorado Springs in 1989, from Pittsburgh. During these years there was constant recreation and family events with Lois, Dana, Roger and his wife Della. In the last two years of Lois' life she became a grandmother to Greg and Jennifer's daughter, Ansley Claire -- who has the same marvelous blue-eyes of Lois. We honor and celebrate Lois' three lives on earth -- wife of Dana, single parent, and Colorado resident, docent at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, member of the Eastern Star, and the best mother two brothers could ever have. We love you and miss you Mom. A memorial service to celebrate Lois' life will be held June 10, 2005 at two o'clock p.m. at First United Methodist Church Chapel in Colorado Springs. We want to extend heartfelt thanks to the Brighton Gardens caregiver staff of five years of friendship and loving attention to Lois and our entire family.