Lois Stewart, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, and homemaker, was born June 24, 1927 in Reno, Nevada to Richard and Leona Metzger Hitchens. She died peacefully May 24, 2009 in her home of nearly 54 years in Carson City.
She graduated from Reno High School in 1945. While attending University of Nevada, she met the love of her life, Henry Stewart. Upon marriage and graduation, she worked in cancer research while he pursued his medical training. They moved to Carson City in July 1955 where he practiced medicine for 51 years. Both were active in the Seventh-day Adventist church.
She will be remembered for her love, friendship, music, cooking, gardening, and the joy her grandsons brought her. She had a love of reading and an unquenchable thirst for learning. Lois Stewart's most extraordinary quality was the many ways in which she supported those she loved.
She is survived by her sons Richard of Fallon and John of Reno; daughter Sylvia of Riverside, Calif.; and two grandsons, Henry Allen and John Austin.
Services will be 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Walton's Chapel of the Valley in Carson City. If you choose, in lieu of flowers, the family encourages you to do something special for someone you love.