Ann “Lois” Lahr – Earlville

Ann “Lois” Lahr, 87, of Earlville, Iowa, passed away on Friday, June 28, 2024, at Regional Medical
Center in Manchester, Iowa. Visitation will be held, 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 6, 2024, at St. Joesph
Catholic Church in Earlville. Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 10:30 a.m. with Reverend Philip
Agyeui officiating. Burial will take place at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Earlville. Clifton-Murdoch
Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Earlville is in charge of arrangements.

Lois was born on October 10, 1936, in Colesburg, Iowa, the daughter of Louis and Louise (Lechtenberg)
Koelker. She graduated from Earlville High School in 1954. Ann married Harold “Harry” Lahr on June
17, 1968, in Buffalo Center, Iowa; three children were born to this union. She worked as an
Administrative Assist at the local Gas Company in Manchester, Collins Aerospace in Cedar Rapids and
John Deere in Dubuque. Lois also worked alongside her husband Harry with his trucking company and
auction businesses in Earlville. Lois was a faithful member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in
Earlville.

Later in life Lois was an avid basketball superfan of the Iowa Hawkeyes and the NBA and did a brilliant
job of informing family of game times and dates. She will be remembered for her wonderful sense of
humor and quick wit, she loved to sing and was a talented pianist which she learned to play from her
mother. Most of all she loved being Mom and “Gma” and getting to spend as much time as she could
with her family, especially her grandchildren. She was also everyone’s favorite aunt.

Lois is survived by her children, Shannon (Julie) Lahr of Earlville, Ann (Paul) Scallon of Solon, Matt
(Lisa) Lahr of Earlville; grandchildren, Hannah Lahr (Travis Kelchen), Gavin Scallon, Mahala Lahr, and
Caleb Lahr; sister, Marilyn Michael of Cedar Rapids and sisters-in-law, Betty Lois Koelker of
Manchester, Rosemary Lahr of Edgewood, and Patricia (Bob) Wolfe of Dubuque.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Louis and Louise Koelker; husband, Harry Lahr; parent-in-
laws, Raymond and Delores Lahr; brothers, Llewellyn (Bernice) Koelker, Louis “Bud” Koelker; sisters,
Verna (LaVerne) Hawker, Carol (Bob) Ortberg; and her in-laws, Bob Lahr, Herman (Bev) Lahr, and
Wayne Lahr.

Memorials in Lois’s memory may be directed to the local Alzheimer’s Association.

A special thank you for the exceptional care given to Lois by Denise Lympus, MSN, AGACNP-BC,
FNP-BC and the staff at Regional Medical Center.

Please share a memory of Lois at www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.