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Lou Ella Smith Riess

21 Jan 1902 – 28 Nov 1994

Birth	21 Jan 1902
Death	28 Nov 1994
Cemetery	Forest Park East Cemetery Webster , Harris County , Texas , USA
Added by	David Curry on 26 Apr 2024
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228224739

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Mrs. Lou Ella Riess was a music teacher for 60 years, She was a member of Piano Progressive Music Education, American Accordion Association, Piano Teachers Guild, Scholarship Awards European Master Session Vienna, Austria, Grotto and Ladies Oriental Shrine, and Eastern Star recipient of the Medallion of Merit Award. Funeral services were held Monday, December 5, 1994 at Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home with Reverend Ed Pounders officiating. Interment followed at Forest Park East Cemetery. From obituary in the Houston Chronicle, Sunday, December 4, 1994, Page 43. ________________ Daughter of William Coleman Smith and Nancy Luvenia (Tunsford) Smith, per her birth record. Her mother died in Houston on 25 Jan 1944. Marriages, both in Houston: 1) Roy Lee Wease from St Louis, on 26 Feb 1924. 2) Alvin Herman Riess on 10 Jan 1929 Her first husband, Roy Lee Wease, was an orchestra leader and an auto parts salesman at the time of his death, which was due to injuries from an automoble accident in Houston. His body was sent to St Louis for burial. ______________ The names of Lou Ella Riess and her husband Alvin Herman Riess are engraved on a memorial bench in Washington Cemetery in Houston where Alvin's parents and grandparents are interred, but their graves are at Forest Park East Cemetery, per the the Billion Graves website and their obituaries.

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• William Coleman Smith 1845–1923
• Nancy L. Smith 1857–1944 FaG

Spouse

• Roy Lee Wease 1899–1927 FaG
• Alvin Herman Riess 1902–1989 FaG

Siblings

• Henrietta Smith Kennedy 1879–1935
• Verda E. Smith Walker 1893–1968
• Homer William Smith 1898–1925

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