Published: Tuesday, 4/29/2014

BY JANET ROMAKER BLADE SAFF WRITER

LIBERTY CENTER, Ohio Hannah Louisa M. Strock, a lifelong teacher, died Saturday just hours after Northwest State Community College officials named her coordinator emeritus of the colleges Center for Lifelong Learning. She was 98.

Mrs. Strock died of heart failure, said her daughter, Cecily Rohrs.

She often said she wanted to live until she died. She did just that.

Her energy? Folks wanted to bottle and sell it.

Consider: When she moved into the Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center a few weeks ago, Mrs. Strock had furniture arranged to meet her needs as she continued to pursue various projects.

And she insisted on a connection to her laptop computer.

Tom Stuckey, president of Northwest State near Archbold, visited Mrs. Strock a couple days before the Saturday ceremony.

There she was, he recalled, juggling several projects, including editing a newsletter for the Henry County Retired Teachers Association and developing plans for summer events in Liberty Center.

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Hannah Louisa M. Strock [1916-2014]; Liberty Center woman taught about 60 years