Lorraine K. Friedrich, age 89, entered into eternal rest with her Lord on Saturday evening, May 15th, at Lancaster General Hospital. She is mourned and will be forever missed by her friends and, most of all, her family, her husband Julius and their three sons and their families: Andrew and his wife Marilyn of Port Townsend, Washington, and their children Mark and Krista; Robert and his wife Rebecca of Lancaster, and their children Philip and Elizabeth; and Thomas and his wife Iris Klein of Schenectady, New York, and their children Eric and Anna.

Lorraine Koch Friedrich was born July 21st, 1920, in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Arthur and Clara Koch. A sister Marian and a brother Melvin preceded her in death; she is survived by her sister Claire of Mesa, Arizona. She attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she met Julius and graduated with a degree in Art History in 1941. Shortly after her graduation, she married Julius, establishing a union that endured for almost 69 years. At the end of World War II, they settled first in Denver, Colorado, and then in the mountains near Evergreen, where they resided until moving to Lancaster in 2001, living in recent months at the Mennonite Home.

Art became a lifelong interest for Lorraine, particularly the art and culture of the native American peoples of the Southwest, an interest that she enjoyed sharing with others for many years as a docent at the Denver Art Museum, where she also served as secretary of the volunteer organization. She loved opera, listening faithfully for decades to the Saturday afternoon broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. She was an avid reader and enjoyed needlepoint and gardening. She was a hospital volunteer, an active member of her church in Denver, and an active parent in her children's schools, but above all a devoted, loving, and proud wife and mother. In Lancaster, she was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

She and her husband Julius loved to travel and so traveled widely throughout the United States and Europe. But the places she loved the most were the coast of Maine, where they often vacationed, and the mountains of her true home in Colorado, to which she will return for her final resting place.

The family is grateful for the love and compassion shown by those who helped Lorraine in recent years, especially Leslie Gagliarducci and the staff of the Mennonite Home.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial contribution may be made to Milagro House, 320 S. Christian Street, Lancaster, PA 17601; the Volunteer Endowment Fund of the Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, Colorado 80204; The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10005; or Doctors without Borders, PO Box 5030,  
Hagerstown, MD 21741. The memorial service will be private. The family is being assisted by the Charles F. Snyder Jr. Funeral Home and Chapel. To send online condolences, please visit snyderfuneralhome.com