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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., February 15, 1968, page 12

LOIS SPRAGUE SERVICES HELD FRIDAY, FEB. 9

Services were held at Gardner's Chapel on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Lois Seaton Sprague who died Feb. 6, 1968 at Walnut Creek, Calif. Interment was at the White Salmon Cemetery.
Lois Sprague was born Oct. 7, 1918 at Enterprise, Ore., where she lived until she was 3 months old. At that time her parents moved to White Salmon where she attended school and graduated from Columbia Union high School in 1937.
She continued her education at Central Washington College of Education, Whitman and the University of Washington.
Returning to White Salmon, she taught in the local schools briefly and one year in Portland, Ore., before she married and made her home in White Salmon.
In 1956 she moved to California where she did post-graduate work at San Francisco State College, University of California. She then made her home at Walnut Creek where she taught school and raised her family.
Mrs. Sprague was interested in the International Peace Movement and was active in the American Friends Society during her lifetime.
Her surviving family includes a daughter, Cassie Sprague, of San Francisco; a son, Brian Phillip, of San Francisco; a step-son, Kirby Sprague, of Alaska; and a sister, Eunice Mongan, of San Francisco.
Another service will be held soon at the Unitarian Church at Walnut Creek where Mrs. Sprague was an active worker.
Anyone wishing more information may contact Mrs. John Mongan, 325 Buckingham Way, Apt. 605, San Francisco, Calif. 94132.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., February 15, 1968, page 3

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LOIS SPRAGUE

A memorial service was held Friday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. in Gardner's Chapel, for Mrs. Lois Seaton Surague, 49, who died Tuesday in Walnut Creek, Calif. The service, planned before her death by Mrs. Sprague, consisted of her favorite selections of Bach music, and poetry selections read by Bernard Pollard, some of which had been written by her own students. She was buried in Goodwill Cemetery at White Salmon beside her parents and a brother, Gorman Seaton.
Lois Seaton was born at Enterprise, Oregon, October 7, 1918. She was brought to White Salmon when only three months old and attended school here, and was graduated from Columbia High school in 1937. She attended Whitman College, the University of Washington, and a California college, later teaching in the White Salmon schools. She had been teaching in the San Francisco area until two weeks before her death.
Surviving are a daughter, Cassie Sprague and a son, Brian Phillip Sprague, both of Walnut Creek; a stepson, Kirby Sprague in Alaska and a sister, Eunice Mongan, of San Francisco.