Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....MAURER, MILDRED SUMMERS August 11, 2014
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News Star World - August 13, 2014
MILDRED SUMMERS MAURER

Memorial service for Mildred Summers Maurer, 97, of Monroe, will be held at 
2:00pm, August 14th 2014, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Oliver Road, Monroe, 
with Rev. Paul McComack officiating. Interment will follow at Mulhearn 
Memorial Park cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, 
Sterlington Road, Monroe. A reception will follow in the Fellowship Hall.

Mrs. Maurer, (Ret) Teacher and Regional Director Louisiana Restaurant 
Association NE, died at her home in Monroe on August 11 2014.

Mrs. Maurer was born on June 7, 1917, in Danville, Illinois, the daughter of 
Claus Clarkson Summers and Elsie Mae Pool Summers. One sister, Virginia 
Monzell Summers, Grandson Tim Maurer and her parents all preceded her in death.

Mildred graduated from Danville High School in 1935 and when on to obtain a 
Bachelor of Education from Eastern Illinois University. She continued to 
further her education by attended Bowling Green University, University of 
Illinois and St. John Fisher University that accumulated in a Master's Degree 
of Education. 

Mildred met and married the love of her life Mark Maurer from Springfield, 
Illinois. After graduation she taught elementary school in Danville, 
Springfield and Mattoon Illinois, Cheyenne Wyoming and Rochester, New York. 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Maurer moved from Rochester, NY to Monroe, LA in 1968 where 
he worked for Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc. and she later started 
working for the Louisiana Restaurant Association. They became parents to one 
lovely son Nicholas. Nick she so fondly called him. Mildred was active in 
local and regional organizations and clubs, a member of Trinity Lutheran 
Church, Life member of the Order of Eastern Star # 307, Danville Illinois, 
Life member of Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority, Illinois Alpha Gamma and Louisiana 
Alpha Delta President, honored in New Orleans and placed in Louisiana 
Restaurant Association Hall of Fame, Kid's Café at Children Museum was 
dedicated to Mildred in August 1998. 

She is survived by her only son Nicholas (Nick) Summers Maurer, and his wife, 
Shirley and Grand-niece's Amber Nicole Maurer and Katlynn Michelle Maurer of 
West Monroe, LA; one first cousin George Donald Summers, Reston, VA. She will 
also be missed by a host of other relatives and friends.

The family expresses gratitude to her physician: Dr. Michael Haywood. Special 
recognition is extended to her neighbor Dr. Wilson Campbell; and Mary Young, 
Emma Cooper, RaNeiqua Bailey, Kimberla Lewis and Jequanta Young who provided 
excellent twenty-four hour care. 

The family requests that memorials be given to her home congregation, the 
Trinity Lutheran Church on 1301 Oliver Road, Monroe, LA 71201.

Online Registry/Condolences: www.mulhearnhome.com

Mulhearn Funeral Home

Sterlington Road

Monroe, LA 

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