Lois Post

Lois Lenore Ellis Post, 99, passed away at The Fountains in Cartersville, Georgia, October 16, 2023. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, grew up there, and graduated from Westport High School; where she was involved in drama and the debate team. At the top of her class, she was college recruited and opted for business college; where she became proficient at typing and shorthand, skills she used later when she worked for Judge J. L. Davis and the District Court Administrator’s Office. During WWII when her young husband, Robert Eggleston, was stationed in San Diego, she helped with the war effort assisting the “Rosy the Riveters” as a bucker, a job title she reddened a bit, pronouncing. Widowed, due to the war, with a young child; she went on with a busy life. She married her late husband’s friend, Robert Rayborn, and they raised three girls, whom she made sure were well-dressed, -coifed, -fed, -loved, and -educated. They lived in a few Kansas towns, moved back to the Kansas City, Missouri area, and then settled in Cartersville, Georgia in 1961. An avid gardener, gifted artist, skilled seamstress, self-taught pianist, and prolific reader, she was eager to share and was at one time part of a church group involved with knitting items for deployed soldiers. She enjoyed some years living with her late husband, Don Post, in their mountain home in Tiger, Georgia; and she lived for a while in Lake Forest, Illinois. Lois is preceded in death, along with her husbands, by her parents Mae Heffern and Leonard Ellis, and her brother Robert Ellis. Surviving are her three daughters, Corliss Mueller, Mary Agan, and Kathleen Simmons. Surviving grandchildren are Townes Comer, Jennifer Chube, Gabriel Agan (Linden), Abbey Agan Ross, Amanda Parker (John), and Robby Simmons (Leslie). Great grandchildren are Lewis and Violet Chube, Mary Claire and Caroline Agan, Samuel Ross, Will, Wiley, and Margaret Simmons, and Katherine Parker. Nephews are Len Ellis (Phyllis) and David Ellis (Agnes). Our family thanks ProMedica Hospice and her loving caregivers at the The Fountains where, as the oldest at the time memory care tenant, she was the celebrated prom queen at the “senior” prom. Lois’ life will be celebrated at a funeral Mass at St. Francis Church in Cartersville, Georgia on November 16th at 11:30am. Interment of her ashes alongside her late husband, Don Post, will be at the Georgia National Military Cemetery in Canton, Georgia on November 16th at 3:00pm.