Lois Allene (Alger) Zeller

Lois Allene Zeller, age 88, passed away December 24, 2025. 

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Lois Allene Loveall Alger Zeller, age 88, of Raymore, MO, passed away December 24, 2025. Lois was born on September 28, 1937, in Greenfield, MO, to Warren T. Loveall and Julia Cooper Loveall. She was raised on an Ozark farm in Dade County until moving into town at age 16. She graduated from Jewell Elementary School, and to Greenfield High School in 1955, at Valedictorian of her class. She then attended Draughon's Business College in Springfield, MO, where she received an award for taking shorthand at 160 words per minute. She also received an appointment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation from J. Edgar Hoover, but passed it up to remain closer to home. 

In Kansas City she met and fell in love with Melvin Lee Alger from Chanute, KS. They were wed on June 27, 1958, and together they raised two children: Cheryl and Mark. Mel passed away suddenly on August 21, 1998. On January 1, 2000, she was married to Kenneth Raymond Zeller, a longtime family friend. She retired from the Investment Department of UMB Bank on December 31, 1999. While employed there, she served two terms as the Secretary of the American Institute of Banking.

Lois was an avid square dancer for many years as a member of several different clubs, dancing everything from mainstream to challenge, along with some round dancing. She was most recently a member of the Live Wires Square Dance Club of Belton, MO. Lois and her husband, Mel, had served as President of the Heart of America Federation of Square Dance Clubs from 1997 to 1999, and then Lois and Kenny served as Presidents from 2008-2010, and again from 2019-2021. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Peculiar Senior Citizens, HABOT Blue Grass Club, St. Paul's United Methodist Church and its OWLS group, and the "Lois Club International". She was active in all of these organizations. She loved crossword puzzles, reading, old movies, embroidery, and traveling the world, including all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, the four British Isles, eight countries in Europe, and she walked on top of the world at the Arctic Circle. Most of all, she loved her family.