EHS 1961 class member Laurali Chester Smith passed away August 10, 2010 after a brief illness.
After graduating from EHS, Laurali graduated from North Central College in Naperville, IL in 1965 with a degree in secondary education but put off a career in teaching to raise her children. She was an instructor for LaLeche league, also a second-grade teacher at New Creation Academy from 1999 until she retired to care for her mother in 2006. Before that she was an aide at Elkhart Central High School and also worked at the Elkhart Credit Bureau. She was a founding member of the New Creation Fellowship since 1979 and spend much of her time with church activities. In May of this year, she graduated from Victory Bible Institute.
Laurali is survied by her husband, Ted of Middlebury ; Her mother, Pauline Chester of Elkhart ; two sons. Mark ( Kaye ) of Dowagiac, MI and Matthew ( Cindy ) of Elkhart ; a daughter, Laura ( John ) Homan of Elkhart ; four grandchildren, and two sisters, Barbara ( Phillip ) True of Elkhart, and Nancy ( Tom ) Lewandowski of Mishawaka.
An online guestbook is available at www.stemmlawsonpeterson.com Our sincere condolences to the family.