Lois was born on September 28, 1931 to Sanford Rush Griffith and Maude Watson Bassett Griffith, in West Grove, Pennsylvania.
She attended Maple Grove (one-room schoolhouse), Avon Grove Consolidated School, and Chester County Hospital School of Nursing.
Lois married Wayne O. Crossan on November 24, 1951 at Landenberg Methodist Church. She worked for Southern Chester County Medical Center as an R.N. for twenty-eight years before moving to Kennett Square where she was employed by Kendall-Crosslands. She then resided at Garden Spot Village in New Holland, PA.
Lois was a member of West Chester United Methodist Church, Four Seasons Garden Club of Kennett Square, the Southern Chester County Medical Center Auxiliary, and the Community Church at Garden Spot Village.
She is survived by a daughter, Nancy Kremer (Richard), Clear Brook, Virginia, a granddaughter, Andrea Darr (Roy), and three great-grandchildren, Morgan Smith, Bailey Sperry, and Brianna Polston, of Stephens City, Virginia. She is also survived by one sister, Florence Harkins, of Kennett Square, PA, and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents and a brother, Sanford Griffith.
Services and Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Benevolent Fund, Garden Spot Village, 433 South Kinzer Avenue, New Holland, PA 17557.
Arrangements by DellaVecchia, Reilly, Smith & Boyd Funeral Home, Inc. 410 N. Church St. West Chester, PA 19380 610-696-1181; www.DellaFH.com