{"id":30022,"date":"2014-09-23T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T21:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=30022"},"modified":"2014-09-23T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T21:34:10","slug":"lois-kathay-cummings-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/lois-kathay-cummings-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Lois Kathay Cummings Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LoisCole\"Lois Kathay Cummings Cole<\/a>:
\nNovember 28, 1925 – September 18, 2014
\nWith the\u00a0passing of Lois, the world has lost a shining beacon of love and compassion.\u00a0Lois was born in Peking (Beijing), China to Dr. Paul E. Johnson and Evelyn (Grant) Johnson. Lois’s parents were serving as Methodist missionaries in China.\u00a0Following their return to the United States, Lois grew up in Iowa and graduated from Newton Wellesley high school in Boston where her father, Dr. Paul E. Johnson, taught at Boston University School of Theology. Lois attended nursing school in Boston graduating as a registered nurse.\u00a0She married Rev. George Cummings in 1947, and together they served churches in Valier, Montana; Pullman, Washington; and others in this Conference.\u00a0Lois re-established her professional career as a home health nurse on Maui until her retirement in 1988. Lois relocated to Grants Pass, Oregon following her retirement, where she met the second love of her life, Mr. Raymond Cole. They married and resettled in Fort Collins, Colorado to be near her family.\u00a0Lois had an amazing passion and vigor for life! From multiple trips crisscrossing the nation\u00a0 in a Ford van with her husband and four children, to her expertise at Hula dancing and square dancing, hiking and camping, boating, corresponding with all of her family and friends on a weekly\u00a0 basis, reading voraciously, knitting hundreds of Christmas stockings, sewing matching clothes for the entire family, four-wheeling, fishing, teaching swimming lessons, teaching Sunday school, teaching people ways to live, and helping them\u00a0 to die when\u00a0 it was their\u00a0 time. She was a gifted healer who was a powerful presence in the lives of all she met. The world\u00a0 is a better place for her having lived\u00a0 in\u00a0 it.\u00a0Lois is survived by her husband, Raymond\u00a0 Cole, her children\u00a0 Michael Cummings (Bernadette) of Maui., Hawaii; Martha Turner of\u00a0 Maui, Hawaii; Grant Matthews of Atlanta, Georgia; Mark\u00a0 Cummings (Brenda) of\u00a0 Fort Collins, Colorado; grandchildren Chisa, Marisa, Lesley,\u00a0 Mia, Phillip, Bobby, Billy, Mandy, Jessi, and two great grandchildren Victor and Madison!\u00a0A private memorial service was held for the family, officiated by the Rev. Dr. Mason Willis. Her ashes will be scattered on the Chetko River in Oregon, and in the waters off of her favorite beach on Maui. Donations in Lois’s memory can be made to Pathways Hospice of Fort Collins or Hospice Maui.\u00a0All of us in the Cummings and Cole extended families ask for your thoughts and prayers as we adjust to a world without Lois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lois Kathay Cummings Cole: November 28, 1925 – September 18, 2014 With the\u00a0passing of Lois, the world has lost a shining beacon of love and compassion.\u00a0Lois was born in Peking (Beijing), China to Dr. Paul E. Johnson and Evelyn (Grant) Johnson. Lois’s parents were serving as Methodist missionaries in China.\u00a0Following their return to the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}