Lois Beth Trowbridge

A Sisters resident since 1946, Lois passed away on September 1 from congestive heart failure. She was 82.

Lois was born in Alamosa, Colorado to Walter and Juanita Archer, and married Howard Trowbridge after meeting him at the Texaco station in Sisters in 1946. They built their family home on Adams Avenue in 1952, across the street from where Sisters Art Works now stands, and raised their four children there.

As a young wife and mother, Lois was active in the community, PTA, 4-H and the Sisters Church of Christ. Her children, Lance, Katie, Gwen and Erwin, attended Sisters High School when it was located in the building that now houses the Sisters School District office.

After the children were grown, Lois and Howard traveled through the Northwest and Canada, selling toy airplanes at air shows, car shows and the Calgary Stampede. Their business, Racing Wings, allowed them to divide their time between Sisters and visits to their younger son and his family in San Diego.

Lois is survived by her husband, Howard Trowbridge; sons Lance and Erwin; daughters Gwen and Katie; grandchildren Angela, Frances, Roger, Andrew, Tara and Britney; and five great-grandchildren, Emma, Wade, Mary, Cameron and Marrisa.

A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 10 at the Highland Baptist Church in Redmond, and she will be interred at Camp Polk Cemetery next to her mother, Lois Juanita Archer.