Shawano Leader
February 8, 2006

Lois A. Cornelius, age 79, of N8706 Maplewood, Bowler, died on Tuesday Feb. 7, 2006, at her home.

Born on Aug. 3, 1926, at Big Lake in the Town of Red Springs, she was the daughter of the late Elmer and Eureka (Jourdan) Davids, Sr. She worked in the Sturgeon Bay shipyards during World War II and spent most of her life living in Shawano County. She worked as a teacher’s aide in the Bowler School District for many years. She loved flowers and plants, clipping news items from area newspapers, feeding birds and squirrels in her yard, campfires, playing the organ and just collecting things.

She married Norrin “Joe

Cornelius at Mission Lake in the Town of Red Springs on Aug. 31, 1947. She is a member at the Lutheran Church of the Wilderness.

She is survived by her husband, Joe; children, Dr. Carol Cornelius of Oneida, Jody (Aleta) Cornelius of Oneida, Norma (James) Flauger of Gresham, Dr. Neil (Lorraine) Cornelius of Oneida, Reva (Robert) Fuhrman of Wausau, Norrin (Teri) Cornelius, Jr. of Oneida, Lowell Cornelius, Sr. of Bowler, Carmen Cornelius (Pete Powless) of Bowler; 40 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchildren. She is further survived by six brothers and sisters, Dorothy Davids of Gresham, Marion (Robert) Shubinski of Berwyn, Ill., Glen (Marky) Davids, Sr. of Bowler, Elmer (Donna) Davids, Jr. of Milwaukee, Corinne Kroening of Marion and Bruce Davids of Bowler plus many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Dotty Cornelius; two grandchildren; and two sisters, Bernice Miller-Pigeon and Margaret Raasch.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 10, at the Lutheran Church of the Wilderness, Moh He Con Nuck Road, Bowler. Burial will follow in the Stockbridge Indian Burial Grounds. Family and friends may call at the church on Thursday after 4 p.m. until the time of the services on Friday. Swedberg Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.