Lois Reynolds Emerson

Private services were held for Lois Emerson, 98, at Sunset Memorial Park in Coos Bay. Lois and her twin sister, Louise, were born in Bandon, Oregon, to Sam and Lucille (Barrington) Reynolds.  After her twin sisters were born in 1928 her family moved several times between Bandon where her dad worked as a bulldozer operator building roads in the forest industry and Arizona where he worked as a bulldozer operator in open pit copper mines. In 1938 they settled in Ophir, Oregon, where she graduated from Ophir High School in 1944. After a trip to New York with her sister, Louise, and her husband she moved to Marshfield, Oregon, where she worked at Evans Products Company as a “Lumber Jinny” making battery separators during WWII. While working at Evans she met one of her future sisters-in-law who introduced her to her brother, Gary Emerson, when he was home on leave from the Navy.  They were married two weeks after he was discharged in 1945. They lived in Bunker Hill and then moved to Eastside where they lived in homes Gary built.  They purchased her family’s property in Ophir and moved there after retirement.  Lois was the ultimate homemaker.  She loved sewing and making clothing for her family.  Later she started quilting, making baby quilts and bed quilts for her children, each of her grandchildren and great grandchildren, and many more that she donated through her church. She loved cooking and wasn’t happy until everyone was miserable from overeating.  Holiday tables were laden with food including a variety of pies and candies.  We all loved her artfully decorated birthday cakes with the delicious double boiler icing that no one else could master. Her faith sustained her throughout her life, making her an example to her family and friends.  As her life was coming to a close, she had no fear of what was to come.  She loved and enjoyed her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren, and was loved by all.  She set an example for her family to follow. She is survived by her son, David Emerson and his wife, Sandy; daughter, Sue Tietsort and her husband, Larry; daughter, Debbie Carpani and her husband Bruce, nine grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren, and 6 great-great-grandchildren.

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