Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

SBT 1/1/2002

Lois C. Scannell

October 21, 1904 – December 30, 2001

Lois C. Scannell, 97, of South Bend, died December 30 in her home. Born to Edith and Bruce Dimmick on October 21, 1904 in Wilkes Barre, Pa., she had lived in her Marquette Ave. home since 1934.

A graduate of East Straudsburg State Normal School in Pennsylvania, she taught in the Ashley PA Schools for two years before being married in 1926 and moving to South Bend in 1928. In the 1930's and 1940's she taught Physical Education and Dance classes on a part-time basis at St. Joseph and Holy Cross Elementary Schools and dance classes in her home. Beginning in the 1950's she devoted her artistic and teaching talents to painting. A long time member of the Northern Indiana Artists, her prize winning paintings have been featured in many area exhibits. She taught painting classes, primarily for the South Bend Recreation Department, the YWCA and Forever Learning from 1961 until the late 1990s.

She was a member of Sacred Heart Parish at Notre Dame.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John A. in 1973 and by a son, John B. in 1984. She is survived by her daughter, Patricia Hogoboom, of Parchment, Michigan; a son, Robert, of State College, PA, 11 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.

The funeral Mass will be celebrated in Christ the King Church on Friday, January 4, at 11 a.m. Friends will be received in the church before the services from 10 to 11 a.m., Friday. Interment will follow in Highland Cemetery in South Bend.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Scholarship Fund of the Northern Indiana Artists, P.O. Box 8283, South Bend, IN 46660 or St. Joseph Valley Watercolor Society, Lois Scannell Memorial Award Fund, 57763 Crumstown HWY, South Bend, IN 46619.

The Hickey Funeral Home, East Jefferson Chapel, 289-1000 is in charge of arrangements.