Biography: Lois Linebarier Park passed away on October 28, 2015, at the age of 100. She lived over one hundred years and saw many great changes. She rode in a horse drawn carriage in her youth and saw a man land on the moon. The advancements in medicine ceased to amaze her. Inoculations, antibiotics, advancement in surgery, and transplant surgery, all occurred in her life time. She was born on February 3, 1915, in Camden, Arkansas, the daughter of the late Julius Harvey and Minnie Eva Linebarier. She graduated from Harmony Grove High School and the Baptist School of Nursing in Memphis, Tennessee. She was a registered nurse and worked at St. Vincent?s Infirmary as a circulation nurse in major surgery. Mrs. Park was a master of the needle arts. She helped introduce English Smocking to Little Rock. She taught many of her friends how to smock and she asked each friend to teach another friend. She took great pleasure in seeing her friend?s children and grandchildren walking around in beautifully smocked dresses that were the result of her instructions. She also loved to do embroidery, hand and machine knitting and needlepoint. She knitted hats for the children at Children?s Hospital and prayer shawls for her church, Pulaski Heights United Methodist. She loved to play the piano and was an accomplished musician. She played jazz, rag time and music from Broadway musicals. At many a party she attended, the hostess would ask her to play the piano and the party would begin. She was a founding member of the Little Rock Chamber Music Society. Mrs. Park was famous for her caramel cakes. She baked many cakes for friend?s birthdays, family reunions, and took to bereaved families. She was a fabulous cook and loved to entertain. During the Little Rock School crisis she worked with the Women?s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools. Along with other active members, her name is etched on a window at the Decorative Art?s Museum. She is predeceased by her husband, Neil Hamill Park, her five brothers, and four sisters. She is survived by her three daughters, Eva Park Riley and husband, Cooper, Anne Park and Jane Park Batton and husband, Robert, four grandchildren, Elizabeth Selzer and husband, Douglas, Cooper Riley and wife, Melissa, Leslie Gleason and husband, Scott and John Batton, seven great-grandchildren, Alan and Riley Selzer, Olivia, Rachel and Sarah Cooper Riley and Grant and Gage Gleason. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren as well as most of their friends affectionately called her Nanaw. Visitation will be at Ruebel Funeral Home on Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 4 to 6 p.m. A memorial service will be held at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church on Friday, October 30, 2015 at 11 a.m. A private burial will be held at Roselawn Memorial Park. Memorials may be made to Arkansas Children?s Hospital, #1 Childrens Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, the Neil Hamill Park Scholarship fund, School of Architecture, 120 Vol Walker, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, 4823 Woodlawn, Little Rock, AR 72205 or a charity of your choice. Arrangements by Ruebel Funeral Home, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com.