Lois Schoenlein, age 93, passed away on December 31, 2025 at Basset Hospital in Cooperstown, New York. She was born on a small family farm in Lisbon, New York. She left there to go to college at Houghton University for two years, then went on to finish her degree in nursing at Columbia Presbyterian University in New York City.…
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