Obituary of Louise Elinor Dau

Louise Elinor Tucker Dau, age 93, departed this life on Friday, September 4, 2015 at her residence in Twin Falls, Idaho. She was the child of Harley Ray Tucker and LuVerne Lovell Tucker, natives of Livermore, Iowa and Cadott, Wisconsin, respectively. The second of two daughters, she was born on March 10, 1922 in Harrington, Washington and at age 6 months moved with her family to Clarkston, Washington, where she grew up and graduated from Clarkston High School in 1940. In 1942 she was hired as a bookkeeper by the Washington Water Power Company, where she met her future husband, Edward Albert Dau, son of John and Maria Schatz Dau of Tammany, both natives of Germany. Following Edward's discharge from service in the Army during World War II, she married him on May 26, 1946 at her home in Clarkston. She left her employment that year and the couple moved to Grangeville, Idaho where her husband worked on assignment for a year and where their first daughter, Karen Elizabeth, was born in 1947, three weeks before their return to Clarkston. A second daughter, Sarah Jean, was born in Lewiston in 1949, there being no hospital in Clarkston at that time, and the family moved to Lewiston Orchards in 1950. In 1959 Louise began work as a bookkeeper at Idaho Beverages, then in the summer of 1967 the couple moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where her husband had accepted an accounting position and where she was soon employed as a bookkeeper for a real estate agent. In 1982, both having retired from the workforce, they returned to Lewiston. The couple enjoyed bowling and had been prominent for many years in what is now the Orchards United Methodist Church, and in Anchorage they were church leaders and volunteers in a service agency for Alaska natives. In her later years Louise enjoyed jigsaw puzzles and continued to play a mean game of tile rummy. Following the death of her husband in Lewiston on August 13, 2003, she moved to Twin Falls, Idaho, where she lived during the remainder of her life. She was also predeceased by her parents in 1946 and by her sister Jean Audrey Usher in November 1973. She is survived by daughters Karen Dau of Rochester, New York and Sarah Benton of Twin Falls, Idaho, also two nieces, two grand-nieces, two granddaughters, four great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter. At Louise's request, no service will be held. Arrangements are being handled by Rosenau Funeral Home. She will be interred beside her late husband at Normal Hill Cemetery in Lewiston. Family and friends are encouraged to share their memories at www.rosenaufuneralhome.com