\t\t\tLois Marie Draper \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Lois Marie Draper, 96, born Boston, MA, passed away November 17, 2025.<\/p>\n
\nLois earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education and master\u2019s degree in education and used her exceptional musical abilities all her life.<\/p>\n
\nMarried to the late Rev. Robert Draper, they pastored and planted multiple churches before being called as missionaries to Kenya. Lois directed music in the churches, taught elementary school and taught at two Bible institutes in Kenya. She joined choral societies in every location where she lived. Lois relocated to Northeastern PA to be near family and played piano at New Life Baptist Church in Scranton.<\/p>\n
\nLois is survived by her children Jonathan, Christine and David, their spouses and children and great-granddaughters.<\/p>\n
\nA memorial service will be held at New Life Baptist Church in Scranton December 20, 2025, at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nArrangements by McGoff-Hughes FH Inc.<\/p>\n
\nLois Marie Draper<\/p>\n
\nNovember 17, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lois Marie Draper OBITUARY Lois Marie Draper, 96, born Boston, MA, passed away November 17, 2025. Lois earned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-39357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}