Louise Flanagan Obituary

Flanagan, Louise A. age 94, stepmother of JET Senior Editor, Sylvia P. Flanagan, passed away at home. Born in Memphis, TN, she was the daughter of Lewis and Johnanna DeLoache. Her parents moved to Chicago when she was seven years old. For forty years she was an English teacher at Betsy Ross Elementary School until she retired in 1974. She was a concert pianist and harpist, too. A product of the Chicago Public Schools, she graduated from Felsenthal Elementary, Wendell Phillips High School and Chicago Normal College (Chicago Teachers College, now Chicago State University). She received her Master Degree in English from the University of Chicago. Through the years, she was always interested in working with young people. She loved and cherished working with a group of twenty-five young girls and their parents in a group named "Las Senoritas Ideales." Their interests and activities were focused on education, etiquette, opera, ballet and theatre. She survived two husbands. In 1933 she married Jeremiah B. Murray, that union lasted until his death in 1973. In May 1984, she married Norman B. Flanagan, this marriage lasted until his death in 1998. In addition to her stepdaughter Sylvia, she is survived by four stepsons, Norman J., Theodore, Victor and Ricardo; stepdaughter Eileen Bradley and sister-n-law Elizabeth Flanagan. She is also survived by a host of step grandchildren, step great-grandchildren, relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held for Louise A. Flanagan at Griffin Funeral Home, 3232 South Martin Luther King Dr., on Tuesday, September 9, 2003, Visitation 9 a.m. and funeral serviices 10 a.m. with Rev. Fred Cherry officiating. Interment Lincoln Cemetery, Chicago.