*Lois Kloth Meyer, 99, passed away Dec. 17, 2014 in Brookings, S.D. Lois was born April 9, 1915 in Norwood, Minn., the daughter of Fredrick and Frieda Kloth. She grew up in Norwood Young America and graduated from St. Olaf College. Lois taught high school in Buffalo Lake and Norwood Young America and served in the Waves during WWII.

In 1946 she married Gordon Kloster; they resided in Minneapolis and Faribault, Minn. and had three children. Gordon died in 1967; in 1970 she married Harold Meyer and moved to Fargo, N.D.

Lois was active at Immanuel Lutheran Church and volunteered at St. Luke’s Hospital. In 2007 she moved to Brookings, S.D. to be near her daughter Mary.

Lois was preceded in death by her brother, Stanley “Buzz” Kloth ’52, and husbands Gordon and Harold. She is survived by children, Greg Applen and wife Jane, Mary Malo and husband Doug, and Paul Kloster and wife Mary; stepchildren, Susanne Jungwirth and husband Larry, and David Meyer and wife Erin; 12 grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren.